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

submitted 1 year ago by tree@lemmy.zip to c/theonion@midwest.social

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[–] stoly@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 1 year ago

That's why I do it

[–] stinerman@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

The Reductress is great.