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[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

People have said the fact is derived from experiment done on live human subjects by the WW2 Japanese torture unit, Unit 731.

[–] dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 37 minutes ago

For anyone not aware of them, there's a rather intense set of Behind the Bastards podcast about it.

Truly grim.

[–] TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

I don't believe you can figure out the water content of a living human. And if you can, I don't want to know how.
You could just weigh a mummified body instead, figure out how much a living person of the same sex and height would weigh, and the difference would be water. (Not accounting for the internal organs that were removed during mummification).

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Same way you learn the water content of any vegetable. Weigh it, then stick it in a kiln at 100 degrees for a few weeks, then weigh it again.

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 1 points 4 hours ago

Somewhere there's some catacombs with dessicated corpses. I think it might have been Prague. So you could weigh some of them and take an average.