r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/JennyFromTheBlockJok • 4d ago

The inventor of Vaseline, Robert Chesebrough, was such a firm believer in its medicinal properties that he claimed to have eaten a spoonful of it a day. During a bout of pleurisy in his 50s, he ordered his nurse to cover him from head to toe in the substance, and soon recovered. He lived to be 96. Image

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u/SunsetSniper55 4d ago

Are you sure you can handle the truth?

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u/IrreverentRacoon 4d ago

Ah fuck. Now that you put it that way - I am now uncertain of my ability to handle the truth.

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u/j3tt 4d ago

if you can't handle the truth, perhaps you need some vaseline

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u/MissCuteCath 4d ago

Just be careful on truths about vaseline, they are slippery.

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u/Tragicallyphallic 4d ago

Sure but if you’re V-basing it, the truth just slides right out.

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u/anusha1195 4d ago

Will it help if I eat a spoonful of it everyday?

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u/FaithlessnessOdd4320 4d ago

and if you’ll learn the truth…can you please forgive me? Everything is going to be okay

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u/Puzzleheaded_Safe131 4d ago

They don’t call you irreverentracoon for nothing! You can handle the truth!

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u/IrreverentRacoon 4d ago

You're right. I can. I CAN handle the truth.

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u/ConquestOfMankind 4d ago

Sometimes in the morning when I feel like you do, I look myself in the eyes in the mirror and I say “god fucking dammit, you’re going to handle the truth today, or we end this entire thing tonight”

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u/IrreverentRacoon 4d ago

My brother in Christ, what the fuck?

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u/pickleportal 4d ago

And like that, the world switched to a Vaseline based economy

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u/Hobomanchild 4d ago

Not if it's covered in Vaseline.

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u/Minimum_Ice963 4d ago

gonna need some vaseline before you ram some truth in him