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Why did Marvel create a new hearing aid-wearing superhero?

Marvel employees have received a letter asking for help from the mother of 4-year-old boy Anthony Smith. The child was almost completely deaf, and he needed to wear a hearing aid, but he refused to do this, since superheroes do not use such devices. Marvel immediately remembered one of the Hawkeye comics when he was forced to wear a hearing aid due to an injury. The artists created the special, pairing Hawkeye with a new The Blue Ear character inspired by Anthony, who said, "With my machine, I can hear calls for help from anyone in need!" Having received these drawings as a gift from Marvel, the boy began to put on the device with pleasure.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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When was soap first made?

You probably think that such a necessary and useful thing as soap was invented by man one of the first. However, soap appeared relatively recently - only 2000 years ago.

Centuries ago, people anointed their skin with olive oil. They used the juice and ashes of various plants to wash themselves. But already in the time of Pliny (a Roman writer who lived in the XNUMXst century AD), two types of soap appeared: liquid and solid. Pliny describes this hair-washing invention and credits the Gauls who created it.

By the way, when they dug up the ruins of Pompeii, they discovered a factory that made soap, similar to the modern one. But still, a hundred years ago, almost all soap was made at home.

Soap is obtained when fats and oils are boiled together with lye. In large soap factories, fats and alkali are first boiled in huge cauldrons: this process is called "saponification". When the soap is almost ready, salt is added to the cauldron. Soap rises to the very edges of the boiler, and the brine containing glycerin, sand and excess alkali settles to the bottom. It is drained, and the whole operation is repeated 5 or 6 times, adding water or alkali until all the fat turns into soap.

Then the soap is whipped, adding various components, dyes, aromatic, emollient and preservative substances, until a homogeneous mass is formed. After that, pieces and bars, granules, flakes and balls are made from melted soap. And toilet soap is crushed and dried, and then rolled into sheets.

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