midwest.social
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
contentbot@lemmy.caB to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca · 1 year ago

TIL A big reason men don’t wear hats like they did in the early 20th century is due to the advent of cars!

www.lornagillies.com

external-link
message-square
12
link
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • todayilearned@lemmit.online
57
external-link

TIL A big reason men don’t wear hats like they did in the early 20th century is due to the advent of cars!

www.lornagillies.com

contentbot@lemmy.caB to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca · 1 year ago
message-square
12
link
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • todayilearned@lemmit.online
Why do we not wear hats anymore? — Lorna Gillies
www.lornagillies.com
external-link
I recently came across an anniversary of a riot in New York in 1922. Can you guess what it might have been for? It was for men to wear…… straw hats! Yip, straw hats! This made me think of the riots happening now, but for much different reasons compared to then. Why would someone riot over wearin
  • Author: /u/athornton
  • Link Shared on Reddit
  • Original Reddit Comments
  • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    It’s two words, which the point of is that they’re obscure. I hope the author of the long-form article wasn’t intentionally trying for the same effect.

    • quinkin@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      It’s two words

      I’ll take your word for it. Or words if you prefer.

      • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        What, it’s clearly “Rory Fanshaw” a perfectly normal British (Irish/Northumberland) name.

Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca

til@lemmy.ca

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !til@lemmy.ca

You learn something new every day; what did you learn today?

/c/til is a community for any true knowledge that you would like to share, regardless of topic or of source.

Share your knowledge and experience!

Rules

  • Information must be true
  • Follow site rules
  • No, you don’t have to have literally learned the fact today
  • Posts must be about something you learned
Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 1 user / day
  • 513 users / week
  • 1.3K users / month
  • 2.19K users / 6 months
  • 57 local subscribers
  • 7.38K subscribers
  • 433 Posts
  • 3.48K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • Kokomheart@lemmy.ca
  • JCSpark@lemmy.ca
  • BE: 0.19.11
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org