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你绝对想不到的战争发明如果要说一件事情大家都同意，那就是战争是相当可怕的。没有什么比由于一个你甚至没完全弄懂的政治议程而导致的血腥，痛苦的死亡更让人心情郁闷了。但是你也不能否认武装冲突也给我们带来了一些美好的事物，譬如像火箭，微波炉等发明。 Oh, and also theres this stuff. 　　这就是我们要介绍的物品。 #5.Feminine Pads and Tampons (World War I) #5.女性用卫生棉（第一次世界大战） The biggest problem with war is that it tends to put holes in people, thus encouraging blood to take a scenic stroll through places its not supposed to visit. Especially during World War I, when the dead and wounded toll hit the double-digit millions. And especially when a cotton shortage made the bandaging of dying soldiers a pain in the neck.　　战争最大的问题就是它会在人的身上开一个又一个的洞，这就会导致血液大量涌向它本不该去的地方。尤其是在第一次世界大战期间，当死伤数达到1亿时。更为严重的是由于棉花的短缺导致受伤士兵的包扎工作变得尤为困难。 At the time, Kimberly-Clark was a paper mill company that realized you could do more with wood pulp besides just make it into paper. In fact, if you prepared the right combination of pulp, you could get a material that was five times more absorbent than cotton, yet significantly cheaper to produce. Kimberly-Clark named their newly discovered material cellucotton and the Allied Forces were on it like white on rice. 　　那时候，一家叫做Kimberly-Clark的造纸厂意识到木浆除了可以用来造纸之外还可以发挥更大的作用。事实上，只要使用正确的木浆配比，你就可以得到一种比棉花吸收性好上5倍的材料，而且成本比棉花便宜很多。Kimberly-Clark将他们新发现的材料命名为纤维棉，盟军部队从此极度依靠这种材料。 Guess who else was on cellucotton like white on rice? Allied nurses on their lady-days. It turned out those super absorbent bandages worked really well as disposable sanitary napkins, something that was not readily available to women at that point. Back then, most women were forced to use literal rags, sponges or a whole mess of nothing during their periods.　　猜猜还有谁对纤维棉极度依赖？在“大姨妈”日的盟军护士们。结果是，这种超级吸血绷带其实是一种非常好的一次性卫生棉，而这种产品在当时来说对性事非常难得的。当时的妇女在经期都被迫使用粗麻布，海面或者完全不管来处理。 So once the war ended, Kimberly-Clark had a ton of blood bandages on their hands and no ones blood to soak up. Until someone remembered that unlike the war, menstruation wasnt going to end anytime soon, and that those nurses LOVED using their bandages during their periods. With a qui