Interesting how baldness used to mean syphilis, few people know that.
What I also find interesting about men's hair is that long hair was common until the war machine came along with the short back and sides. Instead of hair, men got helmets.
The only time Americans got majorly anti-war was during the Vietnam War era, and the counterculture very much meant long hair for men, not a military style buzz cut.
Also fun to know, going grey prematurely isn't just 'genetics', as in that wonderful catch-all for anything medical we don't understand. Vitamin B12 also plays a part. Don't ask me how I know!
My dad, being in the military, had short hair. He said that short hair was practical when living in the mud. Short hair also allowed an enemy to use it as a handle to pull your head back and cut your throat. There are zero pictures of him with any remotely long hair.
I've had short hair for a long time, now. It's super easy to take care of. Doesn't need combing at all. Haircuts are cheap. And I use the top of my head to reflect light onto whatever I'm working on.
You meant long hair surely?
There are some pretty big gaps in the island chains out there in the Atlantic, so it seems less likely that someone from the western hemisphere brought it to the Azores or Cape Verde before Columbus sailed across.
But if it means someone else got to the Americas first, that’s a cultural bomb that would immortalize your name for documenting. So it’s worth looking at it from one side or the other to determine if the second question is worth the payoff times the probability of being true.
Umm... How tf did the Indians have someone who already spoke English? Jamestown isn't exactly a short walk, even if it has been a dozen years.
Yeah because fisherman had already been trading with them. But that's 1620, not 1491. It's reasonable to think fisherman had been leveraging this information a century after it was known.
It's often mockingly said that they landed when they ran out of beer, which is true, but not because of frustrated frat bro reasons - they ran out of drinking water, more generally. And small beer was more nutritious than intoxicating.
According to Wikipedia it caused 100k deaths in 2015. So either the introduction of penicillin made the disease more fatal than before, or there is something fundamentally incorrect in the statement above.
It’s essentially the “killer app” for AI, taking a good 21 years for the tech industry to figure it out. Don’t ask about the form factor, that’s a long story. But I promise it looks less silly when everyone’s wearing one.
Oh, and a little tip from the future: don’t overpower your wig.
I regret having to correct this one.
(Submitted title was "The rise and fall of the powered wig (2020)") (Edit: without the 2020)
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No practical answers presented themselves.
litoE•3mo ago
Since there were 20 shillings to a pound, 800 shillings were exactly £40. </nitpicking>
ggm•3mo ago