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Why I Stopped Exfoliating My Feet and Started Hardening Them Into Weapons (reductress.com)

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[-] stoly@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago

Apparently one of there reasons that Shaka Zulu was so successful against Europeans is that he trained his soldiers to actually harden the soles of their feet to such an extent that they could run barefoot through brambles.

[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

That's why I do it

[-] stinerman@midwest.social 4 points 9 months ago

The Reductress is great.

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