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wallabee_kingpin_ t1_jecr6js wrote
Reply to comment by Daniel_The_Thinker 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
If you want to be pedantic, there's no such thing as "race" in the first place. It isn't a scientific concept, can't be defined, and can't be tested.
Ethnicity is a real thing though, and in places like India, you have (for example) dark-skinned Dravidians in parts of the country and then light-skinned Aryan-descended people in the north.
These are people with historically different cultures who mostly stayed within their ethnicity, leading to them having stereotypically different skin colors -- what we could call "race" in the US.
wallabee_kingpin_ t1_jecot0o wrote
Reply to comment by Daniel_The_Thinker 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
That's true in Japan and Korea, but it's not true everywhere. In India and some other South(east) Asian countries, there's more than one ethnicity, and some of them different in their typical skin color. I don't know why people from the US think dark-skinned places only have a single ethnicity.
wallabee_kingpin_ t1_j5xz6z2 wrote
Reply to comment by frankybling in TIL Jonny Greenwood pretended to play keyboards for months when he joined Radiohead. He was told "I can’t quite hear what you’re doing, but I think you’re adding a really interesting texture" by btb331
Greenwood's reason is very clearly spelled out at the top of the article, and it's not what you've speculated here.
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>“Thom [Yorke]’s band had a keyboard player — [whom] I think they didn’t get on with because he played his keyboard so loud,” he told NPR’s Terry Gross. “And so when I got the chance to play with them, the first thing I did was make sure my keyboard was turned off … I must have done months of rehearsals with them with this keyboard, and they didn’t know that I’d already turned it off.”
wallabee_kingpin_ t1_iu2vi8w wrote
Reply to comment by JonPacNW in TIL about anti ninja floors in Japan. They were purposefully made to squeak as to alert people of intruders. by tpb01
I read two of them as an adult and can confirm that they aren't good. They're surprisingly boring. The characters are forgettable, the plot is predictable, and there isn't enough fantasy/magic to make the world interesting.
wallabee_kingpin_ t1_iu2dobb wrote
Reply to comment by flightwatcher45 in TIL Dry cleaning isn't dry at all and is only called dry because it uses chemical solvents instead of water by balaclavaloungeparty
Dry cleaning is absolutely not safe for the people who work there. Repeated exposure to the solvents they use causes cancer and probably Parkinson's.
wallabee_kingpin_ t1_irzt61y wrote
Reply to comment by WirSindGeschichten in TIL that all Shiba Inu alive today are descended from one single Shiba, "Ishi," born in 1930. by Tsujimoto74
>bend their head all the way back to touch their back
All dogs can do this.
Source: I had to do this to my mixed-breed dog every day to make sure she wasn't having a recurrence of inflammation in her spine. The vet said it's abnormal if they can't do it.
wallabee_kingpin_ t1_jeg2627 wrote
Reply to What is known about pain enhancement? For instance, are there drugs that are the opposite of analgesics? If so, what are they and how do they work with neurons/neurotransmitters? by DollyPartWithOn
Capsaicin (the spicy thing in most hot peppers) causes pain and is used for that purpose in research.
Interestingly, it can also be used to reduce pain.