And now for something completely different. Here’s a fact I found surprising. Maybe you will, too.
Did you know that silver kills bacteria?
And even weirder: Did you know silver turns dead bacteria into zombies that kill more bacteria? Here’s how.
It sounds wonderful but silver isn’t useful in every situation. Read this Wikipedia article about the medical uses of silver before you use it.
Weird and wonderful.
(photo from Wikimedia Commons. Click on the image to see the original.)
Although I couldn’t confirm it with a cursory investigation, I understand that the reason Royals were called “Blue Bloods” was due to the blue cast of their skin in the past due to the extended use of colloidal silver…
Wow! That’s fascinating. Here’s a photo of someone with blue skin due to silver exposure — very ugly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyria