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what fact about our current world would freak people out if it were a newspaper headline a century ago?

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what fact about our current world would freak people out if it were a newspaper headline a century ago?

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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • 1Y

Some news that would be completely mundane today but scary or shocking in the past.

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I am assuming they’d put two and two together.

On account of the number 2, and how all their male relatives have been dead for less than ten years, that stuff is probably pretty top of mind.
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  Especially if they have boys aged below 10 in the family

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