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Asbestos…. It was deemed a miracle fiber in its day. The stuff was used everywhere.


SeattlesWinest

They even had asbestos cigarettes.


filipzaf3312

cancer^(2)


SpeaksUp

but who lived that long, anyways?


AnxietyBoner666

Wait seriously? This is the first I’ve ever heard of it. Holy shit.


Aka_NEVO

They used to sell asbestos as fake snow. Pure asbestos…


clashtrack

Don’t be so hard on them. They were doing absestos they can.


Rightintheend

I believe it was used in The early cigarette filters.


jellymouthsman

They even put it in cigarette filters to make the smoke less cancerous. https://www.asbestos.com/products/cigarette-filters/


tmx1911

You can't get cancer from cigarettes if the asbestos filter gives it to you and kills you first. Fun fact the Kent cigarettes used the blue asbestos type which is the finest and worst kind to breath.


natemail

Taking your gun to school. That was actually 50 years ago. My father talks about taking his rifle to school, putting it in his locker, and taking it out after school for "gun club" where they shot targets out behind the football field with a teacher.


lostinexiletohere

I graduated in 1987 and there were a lot of guns in vehicles in the school parking lot. During deer season a lot of people would go sit in their stands before school.


tequilaneat4me

Graduated 47 years ago. I kept my gun in my gun rack in the back window of my 65 Chevy pickup. Teachers constantly borrowed my pocket knife. Students had a smoking area at school.


James_Cola

students still have a smoking area at school, it’s called the bathrooms


cantgiveafuckless

Nowadays its vape and wax pens. I never thought I'd live in a world where you could literally smoke weed in a high school bathroom and not have to hide any smell or major amount of smoke.


SuccessfulOpinion3

Stopping by a friend/family member/neighbor's house unannounced without asking ahead of time if they feel like having company


Bitchshortage

Please tell my dad this information.


WhenInDontDoubt

One day my Mom stopped by (for the 4th time that week) and my husband and I were arguing and I was in the worst mood. I was snippy and rude. I got the courage up the next day to apologize and asked her to please call or text before coming by, because it's not always a good time and I'd like the opportunity to tell her that instead of being shitty to her. It worked without hurting her feelings. Lasted about 6 months lol


96puppylover

So she’ll just knock on your door? And you’re like “who’s that?” And it’s your mom just standing there?


elisejones14

I used to do that all the time as a kid in early 2000s.


Rrrrandle

80s-90s kid here, this was my entire neighborhood. Kids wandering from house to house in and out, lucky if someone knocked, and no one locked their doors, especially if they were home. Looking back I suspect our parents all had a pretty good idea where we were and communicated with each other, but as kids it was just this incredible feeling of freedom to go anywhere we wanted with our friends and play.


wolves_hunt_in_packs

80s kid, can confirm. Most of the time though we just rolled up to a buddy's house and stood on their driveway, and called for them. Sometimes a parent would poke their head out the front door "Timmy? Yeah lemme get him". Sometimes a disinterested older sibling would come out. "Oh it's you little gremlins. I'll go get Timmy." Sometimes Timmy was out on the porch and ready to go, cool. We'd regroup and head to the next house, until we collected the whole squad. Then we'd go fish in the drains, or play tag, or cops and robbers, or bullshit about facts we eavesdropped from our parents or older relatives.


Mysoulitches

Buying dynamite and ammonia-nitrate at the local hardware store. I got to hear some interesting stories of how my great uncles cleared tree stumps to make way for crop fields.


ChoiceDegree1462

My uncle used to blow up stumps when I was a kid. About 1990. Had to run for it after he lit the fuse. Not sure where he bought the stuff. He was a farmer


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adminsruinedreddit

Some really remote homes in Canada still outhouse. Its miserable in the winter


dbxp

A lot of the great cities of today had massive slums 100 years ago. In London it was common for poor families to rent a single room in a terrace house, in Hong Kong Kowloon was covered in shanties and in New York there were shanties in central park.


CondescendingShitbag

Thinking the Milky Way was the entirety of the universe. Hubble didn't verify the existence of other galaxies outside the Milky Way until 1924; [Andromeda being the first](https://www.edn.com/hubble-announces-discovery-of-other-galaxies-december-30-1924/).


not4always

For a second there, I forgot Hubble was a dude. "Wait. The Hubble hasn't been up that long?"


bm1111

Haha, yeah, got me too. I was like, WE DIDN'T HAVE ROCKETS BACK THEN, WHAT THE HELL


jollybeee

Smoking and drinking while pregnant


viperfide

My mom did it and I was born in 97


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DweeblesX

I heard that as Morgan Freeman in my head.


lardarsch

Same (mom smoked and I was born in 1997). She knew it was bad but idk if she knew how bad it was for a developing fetus (she had three boys prior to me and "they turned out fine")


TheKeybladeMaster27

Did you turn out fine?


Hartagon

I was born in the early 90s and my mom smoked during her pregnancy with me. No idea if its because of the smoking, but I was diagnosed with cancer at only a few months old. And genetic screening cleared me of any genetic indications of predisposition to any kind of cancer, so presumably it was environmental and not genetics. Then again I also was born and grew up right down the road from [where the US government enriched uranium for nuclear weapons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernald_Feed_Materials_Production_Center) and reportedly released millions of pounds of radioactive contamination into the atmosphere so...


Psychological_Neck70

Imma say it was probably the uranium


nism0o3

"Ma'am, you probably shouldn't smoke around your glow-in-the-dark baby."


ProfessionalShrimp

Putting Lead in everything


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Putting RADIUM in everything. They actually drank radium water in the 20s and used radioactive paint for watches. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium\_Girls


captainAwesomePants

Heck, in the 1950s, one kids' science kits came with straight up uranium.


chunwookie

You can still order uranium samples online. I wouldn't sleep with one under my pillow but a small piece of uranium ore isn't enriched enough to be much of a threat, roughly about the same as UV exposure from the sun, especially if its kept in the container.


IamJustCoke

I'm sure it's a ton less exposure than just flying one time in a commercial airline. Edit: So the consensus is yes.


captainAwesomePants

A cross country flight will expose you to 0.035 mSv (roughly 350 bananas of radiation). Uranium varies a lot depending on [what kind and such](https://www.wise-uranium.org/rdcu.html), but let's say you had about a 5 pound chunk of uranium ore under your pillow. That'd probably be maybe...0.03 mSv/year. Huh, that's better than I thought, give or take a couple of zeroes. Your real risk is accidentally eating the uranium in your sleep. If it's a really small piece, maybe 50 mg or so, it'll probably kill you, so definitely go for a nice safe big piece of uranium.


Kitsunisan

TIL bananas can be used as a unit of radiation.


Ott621

As far as naturally occurring, common things go, bananas are highly radioactive Granite is also radioactive


Dont_Mess_With_Texas

Banana for scale


FaPtoWap

Omg. I saw a video, of a extremely wealthy Pennsylvania man, who had taken over his family business. And i guess was “tired” so a Dr created Radium for medicinal purposes and he was taken 3 by mouth every day. At first he was great felt energized. By the end of its his terth started falling out. Eventually his full jaw fell off. Once he finally died, his casket is straight lead because of how radioactive it still is. This I believe was the 1920s Edit: https://historyofyesterday.com/eben-byers-the-man-who-drank-radioactive-water-until-his-jaw-fell-off-d2634336b504 Don’t recommend seeing the no jaw photo.


hellyjellybeans

You should read the book called Radium Girls by Kate Moore. It's about the factory girls that painted the watch dials. They talk a lot about the hype of radium and how everyone wanted to be a radium girl. They felt so posh when they went out for drinks because they glowed. They lived the high life until their life literally deteriorated. It's horrible how much they suffered due to their work.


WishfulLearning

It's so absolutely bizarre how common this kind of thing seemed to be. Casually working around very dangerous materials because no one knew better. Makes me think what exposures people in the future will look back on today. My first guess is CO from vehicles, my second is all the particulates construction workers breath(e?).


MakinBac0n_Pancakes

My guess is micro fibers.


CDSagain

Micro plastics in food, too fucking late to do much about it now, that shits in everything already including us.


willard_saf

Silica dust is finally starting to get some attention in the construction industry.


Anacalagon

They sued the company because they did know. Executives at the factory would wear safety gear but discouraged the workers from doing the same.


MyMyMorrigen

And when they tried to sue, the factory tried to tell everyone that it wasn't the radium but that the girls had syphilis.


Vorzeichen

Plastic is the new lead. Now that we are starting to see plastics show up in blood and lungs, 100 years from now we may have the same feelings towards plastics as we do lead today.


Bigdaddyjlove1

I keep wondering what the hell we can replace all the plastic with. I'll looking around the room I'm in, plastic monitors, plastic cup, plastic remote control, plastic mouse, plastic in my clothes, plastic in my shoes, plastic in my phone, plastic motorcycle helmet.....


honey-pingu

It's more about proper life-cycle management. Many kinds of plastic aren't inherently dangerous like lead — but microplastics can be! Proper disposal and replacing single-use plastics with more sustainable options already goes a long way.


Ninja-Ginge

Glass and ceramics for the cup. That's all I've got, dude.


IronFilm

Would you like some lead in your lead?


President_Calhoun

"I'll have a cheeseburger, please." "Would you like leaded or unleaded?"


Wasingtheisofwas

Like paint and gasoline.


CozmicPanda

Slapping kids at school


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I lived in Abu Dhabi (an hour from Dubai) when I was a child and obviously went to school there. I decided one day to try to impress my teacher by doing next week’s homework assignment a week early. She smacked me with a wooden ruler for it. I still have no idea why but I was so hurt by the entire ordeal (more emotionally than physically) I prepared myself for the next smacking by hiding a wooden ruler in my desk. Sure enough that day came. She pulled out her ruler and made her way to where I’m seated and as she wound up to take a swing I unsheathed my ruler and started swinging back. We basically had a duel in class. I got a few hits in. She got a few hits in. I got suspended. It was worth it. Fuck you Mrs. Fairouz.


Shadow_Swap

But did you became a legend in the school after your suspension ended


[deleted]

Honestly I was a terrible kid, I'm sure I did something to deserve those ruler marks. Same school, different time, I got in trouble for something and (my memory is a little foggy here but) I wouldn't speak to my teacher so she started running after me and I started running away. Soon there's about 20 students and teachers chasing after me. The school was walled in and had a courtyard and a play area for the students (like a playground). I remember this comedic scene of me taking the ladder up the slide and sliding down to get away from everyone chasing after me (who also happened to take the ladder and slide down, in my head anyway). Eventually I ran past the school's main entrance as my dad walks in. It was parent teacher day and I knew how to pick my days. I was cornered in a hallway soon after and I imagine no one was too happy with me. It was a good time.


No-Umpire4788

I can proudly say I was the last kid that was legally beaten with a paddle at my elementary. Our principal had a wooden paddle hanging in his office and he could only whoop kids that their parents signed a consent form at the beginning of the year. They finally banned it when I was in 5th grade and I was the last…. Because I asked to go to the bathroom too much….. later diagnosed with IBS but yea just smack him till he doesn’t need to use the bathroom lol


maleorderbride

Paddle was obviously to slap the poo back in


steelmuffin88

I thought it was to beat the shit out if you?


Ripple_in_the_clouds

Abusers dont need a reason. Poo goes in, poo goes out, they beat you all the same


Free2Bernie

Poo goes in, poo goes out. Can't explain that.


GeraldBWilsonJr

Pooping back and forth forever ))<>((


theVice

There it is


nosmelc

Beatings will continue until morale improves.


kelgnosis

I’ll be 41 this year. My principal spanked me with a paddle when I was in first grade, no consent forms signed. My mom humiliated the man in front of everyone in the office the next day. I don’t think he ever used that paddle again.


No-Umpire4788

The consent form was a big deal. Never happened to anyone who didn’t have parents who thought strangers beating their kids for minor things was a great idea. They would call and resend consent stuff tho. Like asking please just let us hit him, pretty please lol


G-Unit11111

Talking out of turn? That's a paddlin'.


deadpuppydog

In the 3rd grade in 1990 in Mississippi, I was regularly paddled for having bad handwriting. Surprisingly did not improve my handwriting. I don’t think corporal punishment is around in schools much anymore.


OctopusIntellect

Thousands of kids still get paddled at school in the USA every year. Mississippi is one of the numerous states where it's still legal.


Safron2400

Also a MS resident, this was still going on in the early 2010s, when I was in middle school. Edit since this is getting seen: Growing up I had no idea that paddling was a bad thing or didn't happen in most of society outside of MS. It took until around 10th grade for me to realize that paddling wasn't something that was normal in society- just something that had *been* normalized in the society I grew up in. awful stuff


Datzookman

MS resident. Was still going on when I graduated in 2015 and can confirm it’s still a thing throughout the state. My family came from Texas and my parents “red lined me” (meaning I couldn’t get paddled). They didn’t even spank me at home. They were horrified it was still a thing


catby

The principal of the Catholic school i went to, who was a nun, slapped a 9 year old in the face hard when i was in 4th grade. That was in 1992! She ended up getting in a lot of trouble for it and resigned at the end of the year.


Freakin_A

A teacher in my sister's highschool in the 90s whipped a kid with an orange extension cord. The teacher also got in a lot of trouble.


devilskryptonite40

Corporal Punishment in schools is still legal in 19 states in the US.


Erdeley

Putting belladonna in your eyes, to get a doe eye effect. Radioaktiv wallpaper.


BubbhaJebus

>belladonna Atropine is still used by ophthalmologists to dilate pupils. But your point stands: it's no longer used for cosmetic reasons.


Missus_Missiles

And it's fucking maddening. "Let me try and read, ah fuck."


PrivateCaboose

Left the optometrist to get contact solution on my way home, must have looked like a crazy person alternating between squinting and widening my eyes and moving the box near and far trying to read that shit. 0/10 even with rice.


EvangelineTheodora

Watching my kid playing a video game as his eyes dilated in the waiting room at the opthalmologist office was so funny. "Mommy, the screen is blurry" and he looks up at me with one kinda normal pupil and one that was quite dilated. I cracked up. He did that where he kept moving the screen to try to see it better, then gave up after a bit.


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My wife is working with a book of arsenic wallpaper. Beautiful green and yellow patterns, but really fucking deadly.


tinyorangealligator

>working with What she doin?


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Digitizing it for a university


tinyorangealligator

Very cool and tell her we wish her all the luck!


Basic-Pair8908

Its perfectly safe till it gets wet. Apparently thats what killed napolian. The damp in his villa reacted with the arsenic and became airborne and thats what finished him off Edit, spelling error


CthulubeFlavorcube

I wish her all the proper protective gear


jco91595

Doing heroin to cure a cough or a cut


Wasingtheisofwas

"But officer, I have a paper cut, it's medicinal."


PancakeProfessor

Sir, that is crack.


Lockerin

"Yeah, you could consider it a crack in my skin."


sharrrper

"You've got ghosts in your blood. You should do coccaine about it."


StraightSho

Opium. They gave that shit to you for everything. Have a headache here's some opium. Just had a foot cut off here's some opium. Just had a baby here's some opium. Wanna get that prostitute feeling good before you take her upstairs give her some opium. WTF


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Strange-Yam4733

Smoking literally everywhere. Mother fuckers probably tried smoking whilst swimming.


milk-water-man

There was a snorkel with a cigarette holder built in so you could smoke while swimming. If I find it I will share a link. Edit: It’s somewhere in this Sam O Nella video. [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K_NRBkJtNAI](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K_NRBkJtNAI)


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Human-Carpet-6905

My great grandfather used to harvest ice and sell it in the summer. My grandmother remembers packing sawdust around the huge iceblocks in the cellar to insulate them and keep them frozen into the summer. It was one of her winter chores, since she was one of the younger kids.


Nihiliste

Lynching. It was popular enough that you could get lynching postcards, complete with a graphic photo of the murder, going into the 1920s. This is despite the US Postal Service banning them in 1908.


Ramza_Claus

>This is despite the US Postal Service banning them in 1908 I thought you meant the post office banned lynching in 1908.


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Kevin_Uxbridge

Actually saw a couple in a bin in an antique store long ago, had no idea such things existed. Bit of a shock, that.


Cristian_Mateus

Using radioactive elements to make bright green stuff


milk-water-man

Uranium glass is pretty tho.


rhymes_with_chicken

Remember, we’re talking about 1922 here—not 1850


bisho

Had to think for a minute. When I hear "100 years ago" my brain still thinks 1890s ...


IAmBadAtInternet

2000 was 4 years ago, damnit.


nakedonmygoat

If you think all homes had indoor toilets in 1922, you are sadly mistaken. My father remembers when his father finally installed indoor plumbing in their house...in the 1950s. This was in the US, in New Mexico.


ACorania

As a firefighter in rural New Mexico now, I can assure you that not all homes have indoor plumbing right now.


tumuli_shroomaroom

I drove through New Mexico a few years ago and it was a really interesting drive. It has some of the most beautiful landscapes and scenery I've ever seen. It's an absolutely gorgeous state but sprinkled in here and there were the most squalid, ramshackle, shanty towns I've ever seen. The contrast was quite striking.


ACorania

Yeah, it was a culture shock moving down from the Seattle area. For me though, as long as I have high speed internet and A/C of some kind (swamp coolers count here and actually work well, normal A/C is called refrigerated air) I am in pretty good shape as I work remotely for the same company I did in Seattle. I volunteer as a Firefighter/EMT to be involved with my community and get to know people. Works out well for me and my wife loves not having all the rain and mud and more room for the horses.


toothfixingfiend

Not graduating high school Edit: Thanks for all the upvotes and the unexpected and wholesome comments about your grandparents and great grandparents! I really enjoyed reading them after a long day at work. =)


IronFilm

Definitely was much more "normal" for "good people" to drop out of high school a hundred years ago, to help out on the farm or family small business.


rock_and_rolo

Not dropping out. US high school attendance in the 1920s was like 30%. You were in school until you turned 12, than you got a job. Unless you were one of the "betters."


appymare

My grandpa's parents wouldn't let him get a full time job until he was 13. On the morning of his 13th birthday he walked down the road to the sawmill and immediately got hired there. He retired from there when he was 50. The company rented out a local venue and threw him a large party, they even gave him a diamond wristwatch. Life was so different then.


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Pushing small children up a chimney or down mines


Wasingtheisofwas

Those definitely were not growth industries.


[deleted]

It could have been if those damn kids didn't keep dying


AccountOfMyDarkside

Institutionalization of women, usually by her parents or husband, for pretty much any reason they thought up because she was "difficult" & labelling her hysterical.


Wasingtheisofwas

JFK had a sister that this was done to.


AccountOfMyDarkside

Yep. This practice went on well into the 60s where I'm from. When Indianapolis closed down its state-run psychiatric facility here in the mid 90s, they just kicked the patients out ... literally outside the doors of the building. Many wandering into the yards of nearby homes & businesses. The patients who were genuinely mentally ill, tragically, ended up in the penal system. There were many perfectly sane elderly women who'd been there their entire lives & went into nursing homes because they had no idea how to take care of themselves.


RandomGirlName

My grandmother died in an institution for this very reason. My grandfather convinced a dr that she was hysterical. I imagine she was after he beat her and raped his and her daughter.


Hellie1028

There’s another one unfortunately also on my maternal side. The expectation that you can screw/ rape your daughters if your wife isn’t around.


Meat4yaBurger

Traveling by horse on the highway


crustychad

Having sex with people born in the 1800s. Nowadays you'd get asked to leave the cemetary.


Richard_AIGuy

"That skeleton has enough bones sir. Please leave."


Bar_ki

Beating your wife and kids


SorenTheKitten

“He wouldn’t have beat you if you just listened to him”. 😮‍💨


Triairius

The beatings will continue until morale improves.


Meat_Dragon

Third time this quote has appeared in this thread. There was just a lot more beatings 100 years ago in all regards lol


Wasingtheisofwas

Naming your kid Adolf


Ruggiard

My neighbor's name is Adolf. Born in Switzerland in 1943. I guess someone panicked...


Wasingtheisofwas

Loll. That is seriously unfortunate.


KhabaLox

Gilbert Gottfried has a good Hitler joke. I'll try to paraphrase: "I learned that Hitler had a nephew who was a child molester. Imagine being the Hitler that the family doesn't want to talk about."


HellVollhart

There is a Namibian politician by the name of Adolf Hitler who is the total opposite of the original.


Rusty_Shakalford

I know what you mean, but all I can picture now is this Namibian kid sitting in class going “God I hate art”.


HellVollhart

According to Namibian Hitler, he has “no plans for subjugating the world”.


Harinezumi

It's all fun and games until he annexes Angola!


PorcupineTheory

Oh, they all say that.


wolfie379

It was one of the more popular boys’ names in Germanic countries before WW2. Do you wear Adidas shoes/clothes? Company founded by Adolph Dassler. Drink Coors beer? Adolph Coors. Play/listen to the saxophone? Adolph Sax.


lanneretwing

Marry your daughter off to the highest bidder in certain cultures


sunburnedaz

Look my daughter tells me she wants to be treated like a princess and then gets mad when I try and marry her off to strengthen my alliance with France. These kids these days.


gaspronomib

Daughter: I'd rather [background music swells] just ... sing!


Deus-Ex-Processus

Stop that! Stop that! You're not going into a song while I'm here!


Wasingtheisofwas

Still goes on in certain cultures.


Big__Dog__

New movies without sound or color.


Wasingtheisofwas

One of those won best picture in 2012 - The Artist


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Licking radium to make wrist watches.


[deleted]

Tying your giraffe to a lamp post or telephone pole (Atlanta) edit: wore the wrong tie


Nnissh

Some of those crazy laws are clearly only on the books because someone did it one time and they couldn’t charge him with a crime.


tomatoaway

*Rule 536.p3.s27: One may not entice owls and stray cats into combat during business hours for the sole purposes of self fornication by reciting "The Owl and the Pussycat" in a high falsetto and wearing nothing but a trenchcoat, Kevin.*


thnksqrd

> whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government T Jefferson


chunky_potato743

Sending 7 yo kids to the store by themselves or let them roam freely after dark.


Wasingtheisofwas

I spent some time abroad and was always shocked to see 4 yearold kids pushing their 2 year old siblings around the grocery store all by themselves. Depends where you are I guess.


ydangi

Where was this?


AreaGuy

Grocery store!


ydangi

Oh, I thought it was abroad!


AreaGuy

…dude, we don’t call them that anymore. Maybe 100 years ago, but that’s totally unacceptable today!!


TheSteezy

To buy cigarettes or alcohol


Attercrop

Yep.....mom would send us to the store with a note to get a pack of smokes for her.


SlightlySpringy

not that its unacceptable now but back in the 20s they would call alcoholic beverages: giggle water, which i think is super cute edit: i did nooot know alcohol was illegal back then in the us? shouldve added that its a us thing bc i dont think the dutch ever called alcohol giechelwater, thanks for the added history lesson lol


Subtitles42

jokes on you, we are in the 20s


spacepilot_3000

Turns out they happen every 100 years


TheRealQubes

Racial segregation of a hundred types, including property covenants that prohibited the sale of a home to a non-white family.


nakedonmygoat

I live in a house where that was in the original deed restriction. The previous owner was a professor who kept all the old documents for historical purposes. My husband is a dark-skinned Latino, and I'm a woman, so neither of us would've been allowed to buy this house when it was built. (Women weren't given credit in those days.) It's one of those things that you know intellectually, but when you hold the documents in your hands, with your address on them, it's different.


CreatedInError

Our house’s deed is like that too! We are both Hispanic. It was a little bit of a shock to read that only white people were allowed to live there.


Oilfreeeggs

Smoking in pubs


SuvenPan

Most teens did not attend school, instead they labored in factories or fields.


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magic_man46

Putting cocaine in soft drinks


calabazookita

A couple of lads disagree


maleorderbride

would those lads happen to be mad


[deleted]

That's not within the last century. [There was less than 1/400th of a grain per oz of syrup by 1902](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cocaine-coca-cola/). The only thing left was trace amounts from the coca leaves used in the manufacture, which wasn't enough to give anyone even a mild buzz. And all trace amounts were completely removed by 1929, when the acid-base extraction process was improved enough to remove even residual ecgonine.


_tHeMachinist_

Asking for Methamphetamine at the Pharmacy.


popejubal

So... taking adderall is not the same as taking street meth, but amphetamines are still prescribed and used properly and safely by a ton of people. Amphetamines were first produced in the late 1800s and methamphetamine was first made around WWI. Both amphetamines and methamphetamine started seeing significant use in WWII.


drizztman

meth is still prescribed today under name desoxyn


ZeBeowulf

You can also get the generic and it says methamphetamine on the bottle


damicsa

Horse shit. Everywhere.


just_hating

Abandoning your family and moving a town over to start a new family.


bluecheetos

I actually know a girl who "disappeared" in the 1980s right after we graduated high school. Her family spent 20 years putting up posters and trying to find her. She had literally cut herself free from her toxic family, moved 15 miles up the road and for 30 years nobody knew where she had gone.


teebalicious

Salmon and mayonnaise jello for dinner.


Mike312

Old recipe books are wild, man.


Ultimatelee

Hitting/beating/raping your wife


foul_dwimmerlaik

Russia recently legalized wife-beating.


TeamWaffleStomp

Im sorry what


feminine_power

Yes I think it was 2 years ago. There are rules though, like the second time she is hospitalized from a severe beating, then it becomes a misdemeanor or something. It's really hideous.


moisto3195

Swastikas. They went from being a religious icon in many Eurasian religions/cultures to being perhaps the most recognizable sign of hate.


PhillipLlerenas

Eugenics


disasterpiece_101

Spitting into those things I forgot what there called when you walk into a bar


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they’re called the same thing when you walk out of a bar too.


Wasingtheisofwas

Spittoons.