c/historymemes · by trampel@feddit.org · 149dOnly 2 complete skeletons were ever found at waterloo The rest were probably used in fertilizer and turned into active charcoal for sugar extraction from beets. 153 points · 9 comments · view on lemmy.world
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newton@feddit.online · 38 pts · 149d
Bone meal was a widely used fertilizer, otherwise there would not have been much available.
Waterloo was the first battle where this was subsequently recorded in the books.
too_high_for_this@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 148d
Animals have bones, too
newton@feddit.online · 5 pts · 148d
Do you think people had a lot of animals at that time? Belgium is now a fairly prosperous country, in those days it was different. My grandparents were farmers, living was hard then
fraksken@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 146d
Yes, horse bones were also used. Any bones they could get their hands on.
PugJesus@piefed.social · 2 pts · 148d
Those get boiled into broth for eating
PugJesus@piefed.social · 25 pts · 149d
I've got nothing left but my bones.
(bone grinders come by)
FUCK
RockBottom@feddit.org · 16 pts · 149d
Canon fodder helping the economy, what else is new?
neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 149d
Build shitty BMPs and send them to Ukraine: Increase GDP.
Fill said shitty BMPs with people beforehand: Increase GDP per capita.
harcesz@szmer.info · 2 pts · 149d
Gnarly.