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CanadianAlerts t1_j52ornp wrote

Reply to The Black Death may not have been spread by rats after all by Rear-gunner

Actually, my history teacher just taught us this yesterday (Eastern Timezone, to clarify).

The PowerPoint he had mentioned that it accordingly was fleas that dragged off of rats but it doesn't seem right to me. It even mentioned that it apparently still exists but it's so minor.

Seeing the PowerPoint he had - there was a photo of a guy's hand just completely turning black. If that is how it actually works it reminded me of a Russian Drug known as "Krokodril" (or something along that) which turns your skin into a Crocodile-like skin.

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Efficient-Progress40 t1_j52op9d wrote

Reply to How donkeys changed the course of human history by Vailhem

In the book, "El Palestino", there is a story about a well known smuggler along the border of Venezuela and Columbia.

The smuggler would show up at a terrorist camp and spend the night. While the smuggler slept, the others searched the saddle bags, but found nothing out of the ordinary.

Much later, the author met up with the smuggler and the author asked what he was smuggling. The smuggler looked around, and in a hushed voice said, "Donkeys".

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