• Flying Squid
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    881 year ago

    They also used them as paint. Mummy brown was a specific shade.

    The claim that they were used in train boilers is, however, a hoax perpetrated by none other than Mark Twain.

    • @topinambour_rex
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      301 year ago

      It was an awesome fertilizer too. They brought them back to Europe, crushed them and turned them into powders, then used them in fields.

      • SokathHisEyesOpen
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        41 year ago

        That seems like a ton of extra work and disregard for the dead, just to replace something as simple as manure, which was available in great abundance.

      • @Smokeydope
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        11 year ago

        At least they took recycling seriously! ;)

      • Flying Squid
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        201 year ago

        We’re just lucky they mummified so many people or there would be nothing left to study.