TIL of the antimony pill - peasantry would reuse pills through generations peasants are so gross
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Reminds me of Ayurvedic medicine: an Ayurvedic doctor talked about mercury metal as an medicine, and when others questioned about safety of such a drug, he replied that the mercury was disinfected.
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Didn't a wumao Emperor die from taking mercury to become immortal? WE WUZ CHANGZ
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Yeah i forgot his name but its his tomb the terracotta soldiers came from, they're waiting to open it til they have techniques to preserve everything inside but supposedly theres moats full of mercury cause they thought it brought immortality and the ceiling looks like the night sky with pearls for stars and etc
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秦始皇 is 2000 years ago, long before Marx even existed.
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He wasn't just a random chink emperor. He was the FIRST one historically and permanently fricked up Chinese culture.
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