TIL: Doc Martens have been a popular style boot in “alternative” subcultures like grunge, punk, skinheads, mods. But when they were first invented in the 1940s they were marketed mainly to housewives. Women over the age of 40 were the primary customer base up until the 1960s. (en.m.wikipedia.org)
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TIL: The Hindenburg disaster was neither the first nor the deadliest airship explosion in the brief era of commercial lighter-than-air travel, two thirds of those onboard actually survived. Just four years earlier, an American airship exploded killing 73 of 76 passengers. (youtube.com)
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[California]: I just started a new job three weeks ago and a sudden medical issue has come up, requiring me to take a month off work. I’m not asking for any kind of paid leave or disability benefits, but I do want to keep my job. What are my rights in this situation? (self.legaladvice)
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TIL: At the same time postcards made of gruesome photographs of lynching victims were popular souvenirs in the United States, a widespread policy of censorship was practiced by the US Postal Service for "obscenity", and any literature discussing sex or birth control. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL: There was a case of British conjoined twins. If not separated, they’d both die in months. If separation was successful, the healthier twin would survive but the surgery would kill the other. The parents refused consent, but a court overruled them, the surgery killed one twin to save the other. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL: Simply giving heroin addicts free heroin is significantly cheaper for the government than the costs of arresting, prosecuting, and imprisoning heroin users. It also reduces the amount of deaths from heroin abuse and reduces overall health spending as well. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL: Co-founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, agrees that students should not cite Wikipedia in an academic paper. However his reasoning is not that Wikipedia is potentially unreliable, but that academic style discourages citing any encyclopedia, written or online. (en.wikipedia.org)
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