Cruel summer: North Koreans ordered to provide human waste
North Koreans are used to donating human waste for agricultural purposes, but usually this is done in the winter ahead of planting season. Recently, a summer collection was announced as one of the policies under leader Kim Jong Un's new agriculture-first initiative.
Residents are complaining that this time they are being asked to dry feces in their yards in the summer heat, when smells travel more easily and flies and maggots are attracted.
- The German philosopher Karl Marx suffered from severe chronic health problems for much of his adult life, including painful haemorrhoids (piles), boils, and genital carbuncles. [1, 2, 3]
- The Famous Quote: In 1852, a particularly bad flare-up kept him away from the British Museum Library for a month, prompting him to write in correspondence that "my piles have afflicted me more grievously than the French Revolution".
- Do you have a disease so bad it caused a guy to invent communism?
Per the abstract from the study “The Nature and Consequence of Karl Marx’s Skin Disease,” by Shuster and Dermatol (2008),
From an analysis of the original correspondence, it has been possible to establish that Karl Marx's incapacitating skin disease was hidradenitis suppurativa, not 'boils' as was universally assumed at the time and since
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