………….Shiv.

I could not do it justice but you can look it up! Cold water + fat does Weird Stuff.

…okay, I agree with you in principle, but also this article is from the Onion?

Oh no!

My dude, no matter how many times you post about this, no one is going to care.

It’s all good! The desire to share Really Cool Fact unites us!

You and me both!

Saponification is a really fascinating process!

Buddy, if you wanna try to grammar Nazi Joyce Carol Oates as a gotcha, that’s between you and your god, but searching for posts about it to post this is the saddest thing I’ve seen all day, and that includes reading about the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

(If you’re unaware of this, Superior is so cold and the depths so anoxic that bodies do not decompose. Everyone who’s gone down in it is still there, barring heroic recovery efforts. Many of them may have saponified and become “soap mummies,” which can effectively preserve them forever.

Also I got to explain that Lake Superior really doesn’t give up her dead and that divers found the Edmund Fitzgerald some years ago, bodies intact—one was found outside the wreck—and is now an officially protected grave.

And is much more striking!

I still remember going to the travel doc for malaria pills.

DR: This pill causes occasional psychotic breaks, and this one causes bright colorful dreams.
ME: I’ll take the happy dreams…? Why would anyone take the first one?
DR: Oh, insurance doesn’t cover the other one.

I…uh…maybe?

Only parrots so far!

I’m so glad they could help!