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[โ€“] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ngl blankets are designed very well.

In a really cold room, they will shield from the cold and fill with your warmer body-temperature.

In a really warm room, they will shield from the warmth and fill with your colder body-temperature.

Colder body-temperature is still warmer than the ideal one but it was still pretty ahead of its time when invented.

[โ€“] ghen@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Blankets were a natural evolution from skin since the first blankets were literally skin.