Mine is this little tidbit about Khaki’s from https://www.heddels.com/2019/05/history-khaki-anything-drab/
“Tried and tested by all the major powers, khaki-dyed, lightweight cotton twills became the de facto uniform for any colonizing power. If you were going to ship your boys abroad to pillage and conquer someplace in the Southern Hemisphere, khaki was your go-to color.”
The chainsaw was first used to saw bone, not trees. This was before anesthesia.
That makes it sound like it was used for amputation…
It was invented to aid with childbirth
HOW IS THAT BETTER
The baby comes out much easier in two pieces.
Oh, it’s for the baby. Okay, got it, carry on then.
Chainsaws are fast, imagine doing it with a manual saw
The crazy part is it was less painful then what they were doing without the chainsaw…
On the plus side I believe that was the same time they invented vibrators, and when women complained about how shitty everything was, they’d just go get vibrated to cure their “hysteria”.
Here’s a very upbeat song by Riki Lindholm about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh8y-6Jf4nA
It used to be hand-cranked too.
Hadn’t heard the hank crank part before. That’s extra brutal
I’m so happy that I’m living in 2025
Today they use this sleek and futuristic implement for episiotomies
Thank God it’s rounded off, this could really have hurt someone.
And it was made for use during childbirth.