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p-d-ball t1_j9xupj9 wrote

Reply to comment by iamwizzerd in TIL scientists believe people started wearing clothes between 83k and 170k years ago because that's when clothing lice diverged from head lice. by cwood1973

For sure! Want to hear the crazy part? We used to use a product made from chrysanthemum, which is a flower, to kill insects. Massive industry, made in Japan. That industry collapsed with WWII and never recovered, partly because DDT was so cheap.

That kind of sucks, as the flower was obviously natural.

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iamwizzerd t1_j9xwu73 wrote

Dang this is just a whole rabbit hole isn't it?

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p-d-ball t1_j9y4sku wrote

CAPITALISM KILLS EVERYTHING

^(I'm joking for the sensitive bankers out there.)

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