Mine is this little tidbit about Khaki’s from https://www.heddels.com/2019/05/history-khaki-anything-drab/
“Tried and tested by all the major powers, khaki-dyed, lightweight cotton twills became the de facto uniform for any colonizing power. If you were going to ship your boys abroad to pillage and conquer someplace in the Southern Hemisphere, khaki was your go-to color.”
The chainsaw was first used to saw bone, not trees. This was before anesthesia.
That makes it sound like it was used for amputation…
It was invented to aid with childbirth
HOW IS THAT BETTER
The baby comes out much easier in two pieces.
Whatever, king Solomon.
Oh, it’s for the baby. Okay, got it, carry on then.
the next invention was the immersion blender
The crazy part is it was less painful then what they were doing without the chainsaw…
On the plus side I believe that was the same time they invented vibrators, and when women complained about how shitty everything was, they’d just go get vibrated to cure their “hysteria”.
Here’s a very upbeat song by Riki Lindholm about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh8y-6Jf4nA
Chainsaws are fast, imagine doing it with a manual saw
oof
It used to be hand-cranked too.
Hadn’t heard the hank crank part before. That’s extra brutal
I’m so happy that I’m living in 2025
In use in Ireland until the 1980s, apparently. TIL.
“Hey while you’re giving birth anyway, I’m just gonna use this hand-cranked kitchen appliance thing to saw your pelvis apart. Please try to relax.”
That’s fuckin’ sweet! I want to attach the crank arm to a bicycle crank, then I can ride thru the forest and nothing can stop me
And it was made for use during childbirth.
The band saw was also created to cut through meat and bone.