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Hi I work in a lighthouse and here are some facts about lighthouse keepers from the 1800s you might find interesting:
- Keepers would often have all of their teeth removed upon employment as they would be at their posts for months on end with no access to medical or dental attention.
- Many lights, before they were electrified, ran on paraffin. This meant not only would there be a heinous stench of petrol throughout the tower, there were often huge stockpiled tanks of fuel beneath the beacon. A fire would pose the threat of explosion.
- Because each keeper had to sit an 8 hour shift, keepers often stayed at the top of the light, indulging in hobbies to pass the time. Once morning came on a clear day, the keeper would draw curtains around the top to protect the thick glass lantern lenses from the sun, preventing the heat from catching fire to the paraffin stores below.
- Heavy beacon lights, weighing several tons, were floated on a bath of toxic mercury so that the keepers could adjust its position with the slightest touch.
- In the later 1800s it became a rule that there must always be three keepers in a tower at any one time. This was due to an incident where two men were stationed on a lighthouse island for months and both were eventually discovered dead. One had been murdered violently, the other had killed himself.
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Yes. Can I identify the snail? Because I will find the snail, pick it up with tongs and gloves, put it in a box, get on a boat, and drop it into the Pacific Ocean. It may not die, but if it gets back to me from there, it sure as hell deserves its reward.
the text says the snail’s goal is to find you, not touch/kill you. can you just, like. put the snail in a nice terrarium and enjoy life with an immortal pet snail and $10 million?
Put the snail in a hamster ball
Snorn snenemies to snriends (snail sworn enemies to snail friends).
16k, enemies to lovers, slow burn
Perfume bottle consisting of eight enameled glass bottles as orange segments, set in painted ceramic holder. (ca. 1925)
Why did 1925 people get 1000% cooler product packaging than we do
when crack is allowed in literally everything people get creative
me: *is born*
me: I would very much like to be excluded from this narrative, one that I have never asked to be a part of,










