Following a prompt from Independent writer Eric Michael Garcia, people are posting wonderful facts that seem like shitposts. Let us explain “shitposting” in case you’ve missed everything from dial-up Internet up to now (in which case we recommend you stop reading and go check out Hide the Pain Harold, you’ll adore him).
Normal Internet posting entails sharing something that you believe others would like. Shitposting is the act of purposely posting items on social media that are “aggressively, sarcastically, and of trollishly bad quality,” frequently to upset or entertain people with several levels of wrongness. Real-life facts, on the other hand, might sometimes appear to be shitposts. Here are a handful of our favorites; if anything is missing, we’ll add it.
Surprisingly, this is correct. Martin County turned a newborn ICU into a sideshow in order to keep it operational. In the 1930s, visitors to New York’s Coney Island could pay 25 cents to see the preterm newborns. Because there were few choices for preterm newborns at the period, getting treated in a circus was an improbable preferred option. Couney – who historians say was most likely not a doctor — stocked the attraction with incubators and newborns, saving thousands of lives in the process.
This was amid strong opposition from those who believed it was harmful to the children’s mental health, as well as experts who were still skeptical about the benefits of incubation. Yes, history’s most famous artists created masterpieces out of ground-up chunks of human and feline mummies, which they dubbed Mummy Brown due to the mummies.
This is correct. His success, however, was most likely owing to his meticulous selection of employment and the widespread attention he gained for his achievements vs the relative obscurity of his failures. He’d look at meteorological records to see whether rain was coming soon, and if it was, he’d accept a job, taking calculated risks that the rain would arrive. Another odd detail about the Rescussie Annie doll is that you’ve been kissing the life out of a lady who drowned in the Sienne over a century ago.
