10 Fashion Trends That Are Super Dangerous
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2024
- Fashion fads come and go-but did you know that some fashion trends are downright dangerous?
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"But mom! All the cool kids poison themselves with mercury!"
+LOLOLOLLOLOLOLOLOLO
Hahahah
Yeah! Don't moms know that mercury poisoning is all the rage?!
Chibi Prussia Yeah, my parents are so old school, they still use radium makeup...
Scoff. Parents are sooo lame. They won't even let me get cyanide injected into me with dirty needles!
shu-fang wang ikr?!
was fully expecting to see Chinese foot binding and corsets. Was pleasantly surprised.
Fun fact: if correctly laced and made a corset is not dangerous. Its only when you start pushing it that it can hurt you.
TIL :D
Estarile Indeed. A properly fitted and worn corset can actually provide excellent back support.
Nick Norman Yeah, I know that.
Lathy Loon true but when it tightens your waist to the point it stays that way it will rearrange and squish your organs producing many health problems
how have humans survived this long lmaooo
Whether you believe in evolution or not, one thing about natural selection proves true: the smart ones live and the dumb (or in this case vain) ones die.
Jak Mar not true, look at Hollywood.
the poorest people can't afford the fashionable stuff and keep on going.
curiosity killed the cat. Never be the beta tester xD
euphemism for guinea pig :)
Radium makeup literally made your complexion glow.
carschmn 😂😅😄😀🙂😐😕☹️😩😫😖
Today we have blinding highlight.
carschmn but it didnt. It just decayed their cells.
Then rot and fall off.
I dont even know what to say about this
this man looks like if the year 2003 was a person.
Omg💀💀💀💀
that is beautiful hahaha
Lol. Too correct.
+Yung Brizzy explain please
Lols it's probably because it reminds you of NSYNC
Attention: If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with Mesothelioma you may be entitled to financial compensation.
MrC0MPUT3R wow lmao
MrC0MPUT3R I was just about to comment this 😂
MrC0MPUT3R 😄
Amber Fields Love your profile pic!
i read this in the commercial voice
“your fashion trends probably won’t burn you”
* looks at hair straightener *
Pfffft
Hair straightener: Ehh, NOPE...... 😶
It's not a trend but rather a tool. A trend would only last for such a time, a hair straightener would probably continue on. Now woosh me.
While Hair styling tools that use heat will burn you, I think they meant chemical burns from fabric dyes.
This video is just explaining why we have the FDA.
PurpleTheBerry more like how horrible the fda is at keeping us safe
Ummm... These fashion trends all happened before the FDA was so strict....
Hello There it stil isnt strict enough
Lol the FDA is shite
@@cinnamoncat8950 ....these all pre-date the fda
I'm a cartoon character. I wear the same thing every day.
ayy lmao
+Pikapetey I don't have to wear anything at all!
+Pikapetey But I bet you don't get them dirty.
You are everywhere. Do you ever sleep or is this something cartoon characters don't do?
+Pikapetey
If only we could run around naked without wielding people out. Why yes sir, thank you for noticing my massive boner.
Your hair is fabulous
Ikr
+PJ Staubach ...for 2007
i wonder how many factory workers had to die to get that perfect head of hair?
+Swampy Mudkipz
Probably less than 1, but greater than or equal to 0.
+PJ Staubach I thought he ran out of Dye.
Here's another: "black henna" used for temporary tattoos by street artists, which is definitely not henna, but does contain para-phenylenediamine which can give you chemical burns, kidney damage, and in some rare cases, anaphylactic shock. It's technically banned in the US from all skin contact products but you can still find it in "black henna" and hair dyes. My scalp still bears the scars from a PPD reaction ~13 years ago.
Ooh 😬
That's what you get for being like the host and dressing in a way that would make your forefathers ashamed. I bet you were really cute with your fancy hair though
How could they mention radium stuff and not mention the popular Radium Tonic? "The radium tonic worked wonders until his Lordships jaw fell off."
The Disappearing Spoon? That's where I got it.
Because that wasn't a fashion trend.
That would be this "popular drink" www.wikiwand.com/en/Radithor
i am screaming
Don't forget X-ray machines in shoe stores.
'The Radium Gals' sounds like something straight outta Fallout.
from a gang called minutez wit attitudes!
+James. Chu.
that is because part of the premise of fallout is that we didnt stop the ridiculous obsession with using radioactive things in everyday life. it diverges from the timeline of reality about the time when people started putting radioactive things in everything.
+Lemmy Kilturtle When I'm called off, I get sawed off, squeeze the trigger and raiders bodies are hauled off.
+Firaro like radioactive car engines.....now *that* was smart....=P
Somewhere out there, there's probably an electro swing band called the Radium Girls. If there's not...
Challenge accepted.
50 Years from now they'll be making videos about how we put the plague in our foreheads to get rid of wrinkles.
+Rick Seiden Dude, it didn't take 50 years. People have been riffing on the stupidity of botox for more than 10 years now.
+Rick Seiden
Did you just call a toxin a pathogen?
+Nex Zaros Hey, this is RUclips, after all. You really expect linguistic precision in the comments?
Nex Zaros no he called one of history's Deadliest diseases a form of cosmetics 😔
I most certainly did NOT think that botulism and the plague are the same thing. I thought that the injected the plague into you when they did Botox. I was misinformed, and stand corrected.
3:39 *_if you or a loved one has been diagnosed with..._*
scrolled way too long to find this
Hah ikr?
... you may be entitled to compensation.
0utta S1TE
Sort of. Not really. I don’t know. We were just quoting from lawsuit commercial about recalled or dangerous everyday products that caused health problems.
A love one died from this, the law suit worked so yea, worth it
It's actually scary how recent some of these trends were, and how most of us have just narrowly avoided death by fashion.
But we still live in houses painted by lead and asbestos...
So far, anyway.
I hope in 100 years people dont laugh at us for having phones that gave us brain cancer or some shit
+Benjamin Zaugg That's the hope, isn't it...
***** That's already proven, though. At least I'm pretty sure.
There will probably be some things we are doing that knock about 200 years off our lifespan...
"haha, no wonder they all died so soon, they couldn't breathe out their butts coz they wore stupid pants all the time"...
+Oliver Morris actually they can, wearing your phone in your pocket or bra strap for too long can be detrimental and can (not always) cause cancer.
The materials that make the phone, and the batteries themselves are more dangerous than the radiation they put off. You could go out on a limb and say the visible radiation, being light to be exact, does cause you to stay more alert/awake, especially harmful for sleep patterns but that can be fixed with a anti-blue light filter.
Number 8 is half right. The Radium Girls would twirl their paint brushes between their lips to narrow the bristles to a point, that is how the exposure gave them jaw and mouth cancers. They also took to wearing the paint as cosmetics for the kick of glow in the dark lips. Management knew the risk but didn't tell the workers.
+scarletfluerr That just seems incredibly fucked up.
Management actually encouraged the ladies to wet the brushes with their mouth to get a finer point for the brush strokes. "As long as they die after the job is done, am I right?"
Taps fan “glow in the dark” lips, not dark lips ;-)
This is why union power is so important.
We are doing the play Radium Girls (theatre productions) and it talks all about that. It’s so messed up
In ancient Rome, people sweetened their wine with lead.
Nathan Baker
Well, they should have tested it first.
Really? I never knew that lead tastes sweet. Which is probably for the best xD
Thanks! You learn something new every day :)
SpartiuS94 nah, it was from a documentary on Ancient Rome on the history channel. Back when the history channel did historical documentaries.
I miss those days.
And gold
"Asbestos equals dying"
-Michael Aranda, 2016
my grandpa owned an asbestos mine for awhile, drank over a dozen glasses of scotch a day, and smoked like a chimney. He lived to 85. Nobody is sure how or why.
Every time i open my eyes i can see
*guy with a large moustache* "If you or someone you love has mesothelioma, call the number on screen right now"
+AERO BLKHWK32 We'll fight for YOUR rights!
if you or a loved one has been diagnosed with mesothelioma you may be entitled to compensation
“Mesothelioma is a rare lung cancer caused by exposure to Asbestos.”
😂😂😂
Celluloid accessories- exploding before Samsung made it cool.
Nae Harris ptffff
Nae Harris lol 😂
Well, billiard balls were made of nitrocellulose as well. You can guess what happened if someone, upset over losing, stumped out a cigar on a ball and broke the covering paint...
Can't guess? Take a .22 LR round apart, dump the powder into an ashtray and have someone flick an ember there (away from flammable objects, unless you really like the excitement of a roaring house fire). Magnify that by the mass of a cue ball in your mind.
@@spvillano that would have been funnier without the patronizing explanation.
God forgot about exploding phones.
No mention of the factory workers currently suffering from lung disease and early death because they were making the 'used' jeans look?
And the many Chinese workers that get cancer while mining rare earth to be used in cell phones.
Or the ones who commit suicide rather than make your iphones?
I hope you never use one then.
There are "slaves" making nearly everything you wear.
I like turtles
I've made Rayon in the lab. Very cool reaction. You have two liquids in a beaker which are poured carefully to avoid mixing. They react at the interface and you can reach in and grab the part between the two liquids with tweezers. After that you simply keep pulling out a long strand of Rayon until one of the chemicals runs out.
Barry: Johnson! We have discovered a new material.
Johnson: Can it be made into a paste or powder?
Barry: Yes, it's made from pure radium mixed with sulphur, mercury and arsenic.
Johnson: Well bottle that shizz up! We just found our new candidate for eye liner.
+Velstadt, The Royal Aegis its honestly just sad that would probably happen in the colonial times
Lol, I’m LAte!
so that's how hades got his hair like that
HAHAHAHAHAHHA
+Lara Lioness This is no laughing matter.
1kili2 who's hades?
Greek go of the underworld
Crazy Dark Angel how do you not know who hades is?! long list of books you obviously haven't read...
Even crazier about some of these dyes is that they weren't just used in clothing and wallpaper, they were used on toys, dishes and food, too.
Here I thought corsets were as bad as it got...
LMAO
+Aidan Keogh Corsets aren't that bad, but as with anything moderation is key. It's like saying scarfs are bad because you can, and people have, suffocate yourself with it.
+Aidan Keogh Corsets, when worn correctly and fitted correctly, aren't actually that bad. They're really no different from any other foundation garment, like Spanx. Basically, way back when corsets were popular, corsets were a combination of Spanx and a sports bra. They created the ideal shape for your torso, and provided some breast support. Also, if you wear a corset and it hurts, it means it doesn't fit you. Corsets aren't supposed to be super painful. All the apocryphal stories about fainting couches were exaggerations, the only people who laced themselves that tightly were super-trendy socialites. Like people who do party drugs and go to raves every weekend.
+argella1300 I guess y'all think moving your organs isn't bad.
+BadWolf 21 For everyday wear, they were never laced that tight to begin with. Think about the average lower-middle class housewife in England in the late 1800s. Having her corset laced to the point where she couldn't breathe would not only be unsafe, but just impractical. Especially when you take into consideration the fact that she would have a lot of chores to do, in addition to looking after any children she had that weren't in school or working.
What about Chinese foot binding? That was dangerous and really fucked up
+Kortney Lynum I think this is just for chemical-related things
MastaGambit oh ok
+Kortney Lynum I was thinking the same thing.
Yes and yes, but generally not deadly. Just unimaginably painful and crippling.
Does anyone else think that he has a nice voice? It's pleasant. :D
@Thiyashi Kothigoda Totally, you have a good ear for that- I worked in radio for almost a decade and I can appreciate a good man voice since I don't hear a lot of it on RUclips. 😉
I do too! It’s very calming and gentle. Like a light summer’s rain in the twilit hours of the evening.
Four years later, younshould see.and hear him now. He's like a fine wine. Smart, seems genuinely kind, and isn't hard on the eyes or ears.
Billiard balls were an amusing misuse of celluloid. After a while they became impact-sensitive and exploded when striking another ball.
Fun fact - I've seen a movie where someone used a billiard ball as a grenade...it probably was a grenade shaped like a ball, but...may be it was more interesting
pool but with random explosions sounds like so much fun. I was born in the wrong generation smh
Thank you for not including the corset. As an ameture fashion historian, it aggravates the crap out of me that corsets are percieved as some kind of torture devices invented by the patriarchy when they were just the predecessor to the bra.
They were not worn so tight that the wearer could not breathe. The reason people stopped wearing corsets is because the steel used in corset boning was needed for the war effort during WWI.
It was much safer to be a peasant than a high brow back in the day.
+Khataroo being poor sucks tho
yet the rich usually lived longer anyway
Your probably right about that given the times.
actually it looks like it was equally dangerous
+malina draper Your right on that but at least they weren't dying from things that you wear killing you. Life was hard in the past.
What about Katniss and Peeta's flaming clothes? Are those bad?
in the book Cinna and the other stylist made an artificial fire
Yeah, they might have been made with nitrocellulose
Sorry to disappoint you in terms of movie magic, It was CGI, but as for the books, I am not sure.
oversized contact lenses... we're gonna regret that in a few years!
My friend's right cornea was permanently scratched!
it'll buff out
We're gonna regret everything that we put in our eyes.(except maybe eye-drops)
@@anaalina5964 I wouldn't want to bet on that. Years ago I used Visine for Allergies one time and it felt like it was burning my eyes out. I have been wary of eye drops ever since.
@@katherinkeegan8601 You should talk to your doctor about that, it seems concerning.
@@anaalina5964 Thank you for your concern. I have had my eyes checked many times since then and everything is alright. I have used drops sparingly over the years but only as a last resort. I find hot compresses usually do the job.
With all the recalls and side effects of approved medications over the years, I have become very cautious about some things especially eye drops.
Sometimes I feel like they just went out and was like “Margaret, I’m going to go out and find the most dangerous thing to put on clothes today”
So you basically solved the mystery of spontaneous human combustion?
Profezor Snayp that was solved like 20 years ago...
Gre- **bursts into flames**
**in spirit form** Nope, not solved.
Goldsword Animations it was solved man but not 20 years ago
Is that a fire force reference
@@kuniosaiki it actually exists spontaneous human combustion
Unfortunately unsurprising that a lot of the victims here (especially in cases where it took long for anything to be done about it) were working class...
+Gilboron's Adequate RUclips Indeed, a working class hero is something to be.
Not sure why this was in my recommendations but now I feel smart.
same
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Radithor was said to be an energy drink back in the early 1900's, one guy drank 3 bottles a day for 2 years and ended up losing his jaw, having an abscessed brain and a whole plethora of ailments.
The radium girls got "radium jaw" because they would lick the ends of their brushes to make the tips thinner and they didn't wash the brushes before doing this. They were lic!ING radioactive paint on a regular bases!
Chloe
why did you censor lick
Because they were told to by the bosses, who knew the radium was dangerous.
Is drinking bleach a trend yet?
For emos hopefully it does
+Andrew Perry Only to help you forget watching The Phantom Menace.
A kid tried to eat Tide pods this year... so maybe next year bleach will be the hot trend :)
Yes. But they call it "moonshine". ;)
Yes! Trump loves it!
I learned about the "radium girls" in school in Illinois, one of the biggest companies in Ottawa IL was the Radium Watch Co. The girls painted watch hands and numbers to make them glow. They would lick the brushes to a fine point and end up with "radium jaw".
he looks like a cute cartoon character
weeb
kibaAndrenjiluver16
Weeb
If you or a loved one have been diagnosed mesothelioma due to asbestos poisoning you may be eligible for immediate compensation
please do a part 2 regarding the chemicals we use today. what's in the lipstick, eyeliner, perfume/cologne, clothing, and hair dye that are in use right now.
We lived in Shanghai from 2012-2016 and the skin-whitening/bleaching thing was huge over there--I believe it's nearly a billion-dollar-per-year industry now. Any topical detergent made to alter pigment is probably a biohazard at some level but humans will spend/risk almost anything to be somebody else.
This proves that fashion designers are super villains.
No, not really you're not exactly right though.
I want too be a fashion designer
cough *Mugatu* cough
Aha!!! I knew it all along
Anyone else thought he was going to mention high heels ruining feet or corsets causing back problems? I was not expecting a chemistry lecture, not that I'm complaining. Still quite informative and worth anyone's curious mind.
I feel like Kill la Kill would've tapped on these if they knew about them.
"This a person died of a horrible death"
"How?"
"Her clothes ate her blood "
"...."
"UGH THIS VIDEO IS RIDICULOUS!" *puts on poison dart frog leather coat and walks off.
“Modern fashion trends are weird...” * looks at this man “ ok buddy...
SciShow is always making must-watch content for time travelers. Avoid high fashion anytime before 1940!
I'm surprised that the trend of bleaching your face so that you don't have a tan or freckles from the 1920's didn't make it in here.
"A dangerous and deadly item! I shall wear it and put it on my skin"
Ok so this video was posted in 2016. So why does the host look like he's a time traveler from 2008?
I’ve always thought he looked more like a late 90s early 00s kind of guy.
Because he's been to "The Inn at the End of Time"
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I really can't believe humans are this stupid..
Kevin Benoit it’s true. I used to wear my hair like this during the new wave/punk days.
I like his voice.
what about the danger shitt we use this days !! i bette there is hundreds of bad materials ???
Wat
+Vieux Fou Vines Danger shitt sounds scary.
Nice spelling.
wat iz u speak
hhhhhh !! sorry for the mistakes !!! correction : *dangerous stuff / * i bet
"RADIUM GIRLS it can be an exciting movie name" 😎😎😎.
Thanx Scishow 😘😘😘
Satyajeet Panchal or just a gang in fallout
What you want to say? It would be helpful if you make it clear Pifilix XIV 😁😁😁
Satyajeet Panchal I mean like, a random gang (neutral or friendly group) in the gaming series of "fallout", which plays in the alternative future, which is still stuck in the 70s
There's a great episode of The Dollop podcast (they're ALL great eps really) has one about the Radium Girls: thedollop.libsyn.com/99-the-radium-girls (NSFW language).
A play about them exists it's titled radium girls
Awesome. I can totally see the day they upload videos like this about the things we used and consumed today that caused weird diseases in some 200 years.
Now I am worried of collecting any old things, because they might be rigged with poisons and explosives.....
+Comrade Ogilvy well, if your worried, stick to wooden 18 century home decorations, i dont think they had dangerous stuff in them/
Me on my way to the thrift store: Lol.
If it begins with A, it's dangerous.
Air
ass
Anarchists
Arabs
+Wunder Wimp Americans
One of my aunts collects antiques and, when I was little, gave me a big tin of antique/vintage buttons. I remember her pulling out a few colorful plastic ones and sniffing them to check whether they were a certain type of "dangerous" plastic before she gave them to me. Wonder if they were celluloid....
+Kati e yep -celluloid smells like camphor
7:19 tomatos are nightshades too, we eat them, also potatos
great video! BUT WHY DO I HAVE HAIR AROUND MY ANUSSS?!??????
because memes
because you are a furry.
+litojonny lol your question was answered. so what is your next question that you have been challenged with?
+litojonny for protection against germs and loud farts (fun fact: people who shave their anus hair have louder farts)
+AndreinneLawrence sources? (if you are not trolling)
I wish there were more of these. Im doing a degree in fashion and found this super helpful for my history and culture paper :D
That arsenic green dye was not just a problem in dresses. It was also in kids' toys, household furnishings and wallpaper, and even in food.
5:51 The sad part is that due to the scarring, they would apply more lead makeup to themselves to cover up the scars, accelerating the process.
2020: Tattooed eyeballs, body implants, Botox and silicon injections...🙈
Celluloid, could that be the cause of spontaneous human combustion?
Celluloid with nitrate.
I love your video, very detailed and thorough research. so refreshing and interesting
"*All* the cool kids are wearing the new 'lung knife'!"
Is that where the idea of spontaneous combustion comes from?
The radium girls were also told to lick their brushes to keep the tips sharp. This dramatically increased the problems.
He didn't mention corsets that people wore for hundreds of years up to the early 20th century. They were made with animal bones that could snap and puncture a person's abdomen. They were tied so tight that people's ribs would get bruised or cracked, and wearers had a hard time breathing, which is why people fainted all the time. All this so that adults could achieve a tiny 20 inch waist.
One vaguely related bit of 'didjaknow' : The "radium girls" were also poisoned when PAINTING the faces of radium-dial watches, because they kept their paint brushes super-pointy....by licking them!
I know these were all just focused on materials we used that were harmful, but you should've talked about the way Chinese women broke, folded and bound their feet. Pretty dangerous.. and disgusting
+Boredness Why? Since you (and pretty much everyone else) already knew about that. It wasn't a dangerous trend, anyway. It was deliberate harm.
Correctrix Because it was a dangerous fashion trend that continued for almost a thousand years, affecting about half of all Chinese women and killing tons. I'm not sure how a death figure of around 10% is not dangerous to you, lol. Since I knew of a couple they mentioned, do I get to also assume everyone else does too and use that to argue their legitimacy on this list? >_>
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This episode, a few weeks ago, caused me to look up the whole "radium girls" thing and led me to a book that was published just last year on the subject. It went far beyond that radium girl trial when they sued! Later on, they tried to back out or deny the girls insurance coverage for a lot of their treatments.
And then some interesting porn showed up...
I actually live in the town where the factory was. Just recently we dug up radioactive debri from the factory buried around the town to destroy it.
I seem to recall also hearing about a trend in which people would have their collars so starched that they were completely inflexible. Apparently someone once tripped and his collar cut his neck, causing him to bleed out.
First thing that came to mind were corsets, but then I realized he's only talking about chemical stuff...
Great episode. Arsenic was also used in photographic chemicals, so many photographers and hobbyists in the Victorian era were slowly poisoning themselves. With regard to fashion, the corsets women wore were so tight that they shifted organs around in the body. And of course there was foot binding in China, one of the more horrific fashion trends. In fact, there are some arguments that high heels are examples of modern-day foot binding in that they are the cause of ankle strains and malformations like hammertoe. How about doing an episode on the dangers of modern-day fashions such as high heels?
"The corsets women wore" makes it sound like every woman was tightlacing; they were not, even during the time (a specific section of the Victorian era) that it was fashionable it was only really fashionable among the rich, and not even all of them did it.
Tightlacing did, however, get very infamous due to being sensationalized by media, especially from men who didn't actually use them and for some reason seemed to think the only reason to wear a corset was 100% for a fashionable silhouette... which is not the case.
In the vast majority of historical cases, the corset was simply a structured support garment for breasts and back, which when properly fitted and worn correctly, was comfortable to move in even for working class women.
Hell, a lot of women even today, including myself, find them more comfortable than modern bras - because modern bras tend to force the weight onto your shoulders and upper back in ways that, especially if you have large breasts, can prove painful. Even corsets with shoulder straps, meanwhile, are deliberately structured to provide the support from below, distributing weight much more evenly over a wider area of the torso, while also keeping one's spine in a posture less likely to produce back pain.
Should also be noted that while Victorian doctors did try to claim corsets damaged or displaced organs and even ribs, complete with horrifying supposed illustrations of such, they also thought women could spontaneously suffer from "hysteria" that could be treated by inducing "paroxysm" from manually stimulating some er, rather specific areas... can't quite recall if they still actively believed in "wandering wombs" or if that was only prior doctors, but seriously, they did not understand women's bodies in that time. They just... didn't.
Worth pointing out the Societal context too: doctors of the time also in many cases did not believe in washing their hands before surgery being necessary. Or wearing gloves for it. They didn't have antibiotics yet, heck, I think they didn't even know what spread Cholera until the whole thing with the Broad Street Pump thing happened. The "medical doctors" of the time collectively didn't understand a LOT about human physiology and medical things in the Victorian era.
So take any claims of bodily damage and disfigurement due to something women had been wearing during that era, hell take any medical assertion of that time, with a huge grain of salt. 😂
You are pretty correct about high heels though, as most are badly designed and constructed in ways that put strain on feet and knees and don't work well for how most humans instinctively try to walk. Current fashion also leans towards narrow, pointy toes which are... not good, according to my podiatrist.
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Smokeless gunpowder (what most modern bullets use) was supposedly invented by Swiss chemistry professor, Christian Schönbein. The story goes that one day in 1845, he accidentally spilt a vial of nitric acid on his kitchen table. Worried that he would get into trouble with his wife, he wiped it up with a cotton apron and then placed it by the stove to dry. It exploded. Schönbein's invention was nitrocellulose or "guncotton". The military loved it because you could fire it wet (black powder would not fire when damp, let alone wet). It also took less guncotton to fire a bullet than black powder. After guncotton first came out, amateurs began making their own and loading their muskets with it. One account tells of how his musket was blown to pieces with an 8 ounce piece landing on the roof of his house. Guncotton was serious stuff. Sources: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, volume 24, number 4; The Scientific American;
+chaosXP3RT I have great respect for someone that cites their sources. Well done.
+NickGreyden He's the Credible Hulk. Always cites his sources.
I think i have gotten atropine in my eyes when i was little during the time i got my glasses. I remember having a totally blurred vision, like too blurry to even distinguish individual items in a picture.
Indeed you probably did. It's commonly used for eye exams but as stated in the video it's done in a much lower concentration and in a more controlled way. The old saying was "One mesure of belladonna in each eye will make the woman feel more beautiful than ever before and act a little foolishly, two will make her act even more crazily. If you want her to be crazy all her life, give her three mesures, but no more, for four would mean her death".
It's not like we aren't still poisoning ourselves today. We know a lot of our plastic bowls have toxic elements in them but we still microwave our leftovers in them like "Meh. Gonna die someday."
First video I've watched from this channel and it's surprising that humans have lasted this long from all these things lol. Really informative and the hot guy doing it makes science even more fun! Lol. Keep up the great videos 😊.
Exploding combs! The newest product at Weasley's Wizard Wheezes!
The things that will be talked about us in 100 years will also be as interesting as this.
Where has this channel been all my LIFE!!???
Regarding asbestos, it was in children's clothes so if there was a house fire, children were protected. I remember the ads and wearing asbestos pajamas. Glad you brought up lead and radium makeup.
Although I think the segment should be longer to include 19th century corsets. When you were taught at age 10 to start wearing a corset, that's a problem.
Spontaneous combustion doesn't seem quite as spontaneous when you realize people back then we're basically decorating themselves with gasoline.
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My grandpa was an electrician and he died of cancer caused by asbestos in peoples houses.
My Nana also had a mild issue with the same cancer just from washing his overalls for so many years.
Crazy how many people died from asbestos/radiation even pretty recently.
The Radium Girls also painted clock faces as well as watches. I had (might still have, but I haven't seen it in years and don't know where it is) a small clock with numbers painted with Radium paint. I got it at a child when my great grandmother died and didn't learn about its origin until years later.
As you know, in fashion, one day you're in and the next day your skin is falling off and your lungs are melting.
one of my favorite deadly fashion trends were the size of skirts in the 1860s -- they were huge! crinoline was still relatively new & as such people kept pushing the limits for the sake of fashion. larger, fuller skirts became less impractical as the fullness was made by the lightweight crinoline instead of layers & layers of heavy petticoats. in the mid- to late-1860s is when skirts were at their biggest -- so big, in fact, that on more than one occasion a woman's skirts would catch fire & she wouldn't even notice until it was too late. it also led to some other accidents as the skirts became so large as to be nearly unmanageable, especially in regards to those already clumsy. the fashionable silhouette became slimmer in the 1870s, & when full skirts came back in fashion with the bustle, a lesson had been learned & the still relatively dramatic silhouette of the 1880s was not nearly as ridiculous (or dangerous) as that of the 1860s
My goodness
the minutes after you're given eye opening drops in the hospital are weird, things gradually just get more and more blurry, before you know it, everything feels like a dream haze
great episode. fashion to die for