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Re:Ancient Egyptian coffins and mystery of ‘black goo’ by INTPenis on Monday May 25, 2020 @11:39AM (#23302140)
Some records suggest that people in Azerbaijan were taking crude oil baths as early as 6th century.

I can't say what's true but it seems to make sense that people were fascinated by a liquid pouring from the ground. Just like when plutonium was first discovered it was used for health.

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Re:Ancient Egyptian coffins and mystery of ‘black goo’ by lgl on Monday May 25, 2020 @12:22PM (#23302510)
> Just like when plutonium was first discovered it was used for health

[citation needed] because this doesn't really seem to be the case. Although apparently there were eventually some plutonium based pacemakers in the 70s, plutonium itself was first produced in the 40s but I couldn't really find how it was used for health except for some highly unethical studies done on radiation.

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Re:Ancient Egyptian coffins and mystery of ‘black goo’ by pfdietz on Monday May 25, 2020 @01:14PM (#23302881)
You're thinking of radium, not plutonium.
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