People are sharing awing facts that go on to look like shitposts , after a prompt from Independent diarist Eric Michael Garcia .
In case you ’ve leave out everything from telephone dial - up net right up until now ( in which case we recommend you stop reading and go check outHide The Pain Harold , you ’re go to jazz him ) , allow us excuse " shitposting " .
Normal posting on the Internet involves posting thing you think people will love . Shitposting is posting thing that are on purpose awful and of " sharply , ironically , and of trollishly hapless quality " to social media , often designedly to annoy people or just to disport them with several layer of incorrectness .
Sometimes , however , real - life facts just bechance to depend like shitposts . Here are a few of our favourite , we ’ll derail in if anything involve adding .
This , astonishingly , is dependable . Martin Couney make a sideshow out of a neonatal unit for keep the unit up and running . Visitors to New York ’s Coney Island in the thirties couldpay 25 centsto view the premature babies .
At the time , there werevery few optionsfor baby bear prematurely , making being treated in a sideshow an unlikely preferable alternative . Couney – who historians believe waslikely not actually a doctor – filled the attraction with incubators , and the incubator with babies , and likely pull through thousands of life . This was despite heavy critique of people who thought it damage psychologically to the children , and doctors still unconvinced of the benefit of brooding .
Yep , that is right , history ’s favorite painters made their masterpiece using primer - up bite of human and feline mummy , which they call Mummy Brown because of the mummies .
This is true . However , his succeeder was belike not down to his chemical mix , but likely due to hiscareful choice of jobshe took on , and the monumental publicity he received for his succeeder vs the obscureness of his failures .
He would study the weather record to try and predict whether pelting would come soon , and take a occupation if it was likely , taking sensible gamble that the rain would come .
Another strange fact about the Rescussie Annie doll : You have been giving the kiss of life toa fair sex who swim in the Sienneover 100 years ago .
surprisingly , this too was material .
