Info dumping because idk what to do with what I know

Intro: Everything here is like tism knowledge. I’m gonna make this a thing to basically shit out random info for no one but anyone. And now..

Actual shit!! 

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(April 7th- 2AM) Day 1: Arsenic was very popular in the Victorian era to make green dye. This dye was used in all sorts of things. From clothes to wallpaper, books to paint. This (obviously) wasn’t good for people’s health because Arsenic is a poison but people didn’t know at the time. Paris Green is an example of an arsenic paint colour

(April 8th- 1:52AM) Day 2: Victorians also had a weird thing for preserved Egyptian Mummies. Mummies unwrapping became quite popular. A popular practice from the time and a bit before was to crush up the mummies into a powder and eat it or put it into medicine because they believed the mummies had some form of magic to them. A bit like an act of medical cannibalism. Crushed up mummies also could get used in paint. Mummy brown is a paint colour made from the crushed up remains of mummies.

(April 9th- 0:33AM) Day 3: Part of the Aincent Egyptian Mummification process was removing the dead persons organs. The brain was removed from the corpse by getting picked out through the corpses nose using a little metal rod. This practice is known as Excerebration.

(April 10th- 0:45AM) Day 4: Ancient Egyptian mummies are the most famous form of preserved body but there is such things as bog bodies where a bog naturally has the perfect conditions for a body to stay incredibly preserved. Sometimes even sand has been just right to preserve a body. An example of a Bog Body is The Lindow Man. WARNING: if you do go looking him up it does look kinda gory so I wouldn’t recommend if that stuff freaks you out.

(April 11th- 1:02AM) Day 5: you can also embalm bodies. Theres an embalmed body of a (nearly) 2 year old girl called Rosalia Lombardo (13 December 1918 - 6 December 1920). She died of pneumonia a week before her 2nd birthday, and her grieving father decided to have her embalmed before she was put in Capuchin catacombs in Sicily. She has become very famous for how preserved she is and for ‘being able to blink’. She was embalmed with her eyes slightly open so depending on how a light may shine down on her, it’ll look like her eyes are either open or closed giving a blinking illusion. She was embalmed so well that she looks like she’s just sleeping, earning her the nickname ‘Sleeping beauty.’ Her other nickname is the ‘blinking mummy’ or anything else along those lines. You can visit her in those Catacombs in Sicily.

(April 12th- 8:09AM) Day 6: Another corpse nicknamed Sleeping beauty is Francys Arsentiev (January 18th 1958 - May 24th 1998. She was the first American woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest without using bottled oxygen. However on the descent things didn’t go so well. Details of what happened exactly aren’t entirely known but what is roughly known is she was found by an Uzbek team, half-conscious and seemed to be affected by both oxygen deprivation and frostbite. the team tried to help but due to the harsh conditions they eventually had to abandon her, and she later died. Due to the freezing conditions of Mount Everest she was preserved. Her body was visible to climbers up until 2007 when it was moved out of view. There’s a whole area on Mount Everest called rainbow Valley for the amount of climbers who died and had to be left there due to the conditions being too dangerous to bring them back down. The ‘Rainbow’ part of that title is referring to all the colourful clothes the climbers would’ve been wearing, colourful to stand out against the snow.

(April 13th- 11:58PM) Day 7: Mount Everest isn’t really the tallest mountain. It is the tallest mountain above see but technically, if we were to take into account undersea mountains then Mauna Kea, Hawaii, is the tallest mountain. Mount Everest is roughly 8,849 metres (29,031ft) tall but Mauna Kea is about 10,205 metres (33,480ft) tall with about 6,000 metres (19,685ft) under the sea.

(April 14th- 11:57PM) Day 8: The RMS Titanic hit the iceberg at roughly 11:30PM this day 114 years ago.

(April 15th- 11:53PM) Day 9: The RMS Titanic fully went under at around 2:30AM on this day 114 years ago.

(April 16th- 9:57PM) Day 10: The ship that rescued the Titanic’s 705 survivors, was called the RMS Carpathia. She sunk on the 17th of July 1918 by a German u-boat submarine U-55.