r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/JennyFromTheBlockJok • 6d 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/IrreverentRacoon 6d ago

What if he was right tho? I want answers. I WANT THE TRUTH.

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u/SunsetSniper55 6d ago

Are you sure you can handle the truth?

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u/IrreverentRacoon 6d 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/ConquestOfMankind 6d 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 6d ago

My brother in Christ, what the fuck?