[airstrike]

Holy nightmare fuel jumpscare. Why would someone do this but at the same time knowing humans of course someone would do this.

[ngruhn]

Newton poked a needle into his eye socket to study the resulting visual distortions. I'd rather lick the cancer juice.

[golem14]

It was common until fairly recently that physicians would taste a patient’s urine to diagnose diabetes …

[maxerickson]

In the case of transmissible diseases like smallpox, controlled exposure ends up being protective. It was widely practiced prior to development of modern vaccines.

[Spooky23]

People do crazy shit.

Consider yogurt. Some ancient person decided to sample curdled milk in the intestine of a dead sheep, and subsequently figured out how to replicate that experience.