HillbillyHobgoblin t1_jaey8t2 wrote on February 28, 2023 at 11:10 PM

Reply to TIL it used to be illegal for women to wear trousers in the USA by fatboyslick

I learned this from my Grandma. Born 1940. Couldn't wear pants, still grew to be progressive. They literally tried to gaslight them against desegregation. And some of these old folks here now are the ones who took the bait back then..👀

HillbillyHobgoblin t1_jad053u wrote on February 28, 2023 at 3:38 PM

Reply to TIL American paratroopers with the 173rd Airborne Brigade mistakenly raided a working olive oil factory in Bulgaria as part of a large-scale joint exercise with NATO forces. by delano1998

#US: "Oil is oil!"

HillbillyHobgoblin t1_iudfawv wrote on October 30, 2022 at 2:20 PM

Reply to comment by chaves4life in TIL about Japanese baseball player Kazuhito Tadano, who went undrafted in his home country after it was discovered he had acted in a gay porn video titled "A Midsummer Night's Wet Dream" by Longjumping_Owl5740

We have to know if he was pitching or catching..

HillbillyHobgoblin t1_iu1ucsz wrote on October 27, 2022 at 10:46 PM

Reply to TIL that Fahrenheit 451, a book about a distopian future where books are banned and burned, was banned and burned by the apartheid regime in South Africa with other tens of thousands. by open_closet

Hey, that's the time and place where that "self made billionaire's" parents owned that opal mine that has nothing to do with why he's so rich! /s