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Pfeffer_Prinz OP t1_jecyj3o wrote

Reply to comment by pethris in TIL in the 1920s, Coco Chanel accidentally got a tan, and helped inspire the trend of sunbathing. Soon "sunlight therapy" was prescribed for almost every ailment from fatigue to tuberculosis. Before this, tanned skin was associated with the lower classes who work outside, and fair skin was revered. by Pfeffer_Prinz

I don't know who that is! I was actually reading an article about how in the 1800s, tuberculosis symptoms were attractive in high society (making you frighteningly skinny, with skin so pale it was translucent, and rosy cheeks from constant fever). Even after they got over the epidemic, the beauty standards stuck around... until Chanel's suntan

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gdj11 t1_jecyi1m wrote

Reply to comment by OldMork in TIL in the 1920s, Coco Chanel accidentally got a tan, and helped inspire the trend of sunbathing. Soon "sunlight therapy" was prescribed for almost every ailment from fatigue to tuberculosis. Before this, tanned skin was associated with the lower classes who work outside, and fair skin was revered. by Pfeffer_Prinz

Buying body wash here in SE Asia is tough because almost every single one is skin whitening. It takes a while to read all the labels and finally find one that’s not whitening.

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herpitusderpitus t1_jecxk43 wrote

Reply to comment by zipcodelove in TIL that Kurt Cobain got the inspiration to make Nirvana's famous song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" when Kathleen Hanna, the singer of the band "Bikini Kill" wrote "Kurt smells like teen spirit" on a board. Teen Spirit was a woman's deodorant and he didn't knew it until he was done with the song. by WonderfulWanderer777

Yes, Dylantoback above is right it's mentioned a lot in various books about him and in couple time in his journals too

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Barbarossa7070 t1_jecwqnr wrote

Reply to comment by beingmesince63 in TIL in order to prevent certain legal instruments from operating in perpetuity, a Royal Lives Clause may be written into a contract which provides a definite but extended period of time usually tied to twenty-one years past the death of last living descendent of the current British monarch. by AudibleNod

I feel sorry for current 3Ls who are gonna get a Rule Against Perpetuities question on the bar exam this year for sure.

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nomad_556 OP t1_jecvksj wrote

Reply to comment by refreshing_username in TIL that, during the Cold War, every infantry and armor battalion in the U.S Army had one officer trained to deploy the Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM), commonly known as the backpack nuke by nomad_556

What’s interesting is that Russia’s military has a very curious dichotomy. One of my college professors was deployed many times as a logistics officer, and has a masters in history. She’s very well qualified to talk military history and while I was studying she pointed out an interesting trend.

Russia’s military is very poorly structured for attack. They don’t have a great Air Force or navy. They don’t train for assault, and their doctrine is old. Aside from WW2, modern Russia hasn’t really ever attempted to invade a foreign nation on a large scale (except Ukraine, which has been an abject failure).

What they are REALLY good at is defending their land. They have a ton of armor, a ton of artillery. Almost everyone who’s tried to invade Russia has failed. Hitler failed, napoleon failed, the Japanese almost succeeded but couldn’t quite (Russo-Japanese war prior to WW1).

It’s why Ukraine is going so poorly. Russia simply isn’t great at invasions. But they’re damned good at protecting the motherland (although they’d probably fall eventually if attacked by nato, it would be a long and bloody war).

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Careful_Yannu t1_jecvaar wrote

Reply to comment by Foxhound199 in TIL that Walt Disney World began as "The Florida Project". Dummy corporations were used, by Walt Disney Productions, to buy up 27,000 acres of land to avoid bursts of land speculation in the Orlando area. Early rumors assumed possible development by NASA, Ford, the Rockefellers, and Howard Hughes. by jdward01

Similar thing happened with Star Wars, during the production of The Empire Strikes Back everyone tried squeezing them for more money. That's why Return of the Jedi was produced under the code name "Blue Harvest".

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Daniel_The_Thinker t1_jecv5mv wrote

Reply to comment by SeiCalros in TIL in the 1920s, Coco Chanel accidentally got a tan, and helped inspire the trend of sunbathing. Soon "sunlight therapy" was prescribed for almost every ailment from fatigue to tuberculosis. Before this, tanned skin was associated with the lower classes who work outside, and fair skin was revered. by Pfeffer_Prinz

So you are stupid? Because that distinction was made since race was a concept.

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Barbarossa7070 t1_jecuz97 wrote

Reply to comment by OldMork in TIL in the 1920s, Coco Chanel accidentally got a tan, and helped inspire the trend of sunbathing. Soon "sunlight therapy" was prescribed for almost every ailment from fatigue to tuberculosis. Before this, tanned skin was associated with the lower classes who work outside, and fair skin was revered. by Pfeffer_Prinz

Happens in the US among Blacks, especially in New Orleans. I was in a sociology class in college and a light-skinned Black classmate from New Orleans said that her mom would get mad if she went to the beach because she would ruin all their family’s hard work over the years to get light. All our jaws were on the floor.

And apocryphally, there used to be street parties in certain Creole neighborhoods in New Orleans where they’d tack a paper bag up to a tree and if your skin wasn’t at least as light as the bag, you couldn’t stay.

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Daniel_The_Thinker t1_jecuy7w wrote

Reply to comment by wallabee_kingpin_ in TIL in the 1920s, Coco Chanel accidentally got a tan, and helped inspire the trend of sunbathing. Soon "sunlight therapy" was prescribed for almost every ailment from fatigue to tuberculosis. Before this, tanned skin was associated with the lower classes who work outside, and fair skin was revered. by Pfeffer_Prinz

I know, that's why I put race in quotations. There are plenty of ethnic groups in Europe that can be visually told apart, no one considers them different races.

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