Hygiene

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A big part of being a human is that you get progressively more gross as the day goes on. Various parts start stinking, hair grows all over your face, you're touching who-knows-what... luckily for all of us, someone a long time ago decided to invent hygiene! Otherwise we'd have to lick ourselves like cats!
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History of hygiene ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2542893 [Trivia Question] Pelagic thresher sharks visit blue-streaked cleaner wrasse stations journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/j… fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/sharks-rays-a…
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Bronze Age ivory lice comb with Canaanite language
jjar.huji.ac.il/sites/default/files/jjar/files… sciencefocus.com/news/4000-year-old-head-lice-… sciencenews.org/article/canaanite-comb-lice-is…
Tampon Task Force & menstrual hygiene ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5436965 catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst/article… youtube.com/watch?v=KYXUQDzSg4o&feature=yo… srh.bmj.com/content/early/2023/07/03/bmjsrh-20… eurekalert.org/news-releases/997629
[Ask the Science Couch]
Antiperspirant aluminum compounds - how they work & are they harmful
cen.acs.org/articles/90/i27/Deodorants-Antiper… ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3813027 webmd.com/breast-cancer/features/antiperspiran… smithsonianmag.com/history/how-advertisers-con…
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Mandrills teach their children hygienic behaviors to avoid peri-anal parasites
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