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A physician didn't shower for 5 years. Here's what he found out (bigthink.com)
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[–] Cagi@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Daily bathing is a fairly new societal invention. We were driving cars and lighting our homes with electricity before we were bathing daily. I wonder how BO was thought of before now, it certainly couldn't have been considered as offensive. Cultural attitudes plus smell adaption? I just couldn't imagine some old west cafeteria during the lunch rush not being unbearably smelly.