TIL in Apartheid South Africa, being black or white was sometimes determined by shoving a pencil into a person's hair and checking to see if it fell out when shaking their head, or by pinching them to see what language they would say "ouch" in [source, comments]

Babe wake up, new (1 month old) insane Luigi Mangione headline just dropped

TIL: Phossy Jaw used to be a common affliction among workers in the matchstick industry for decades which destroys the bones of the jaw. While the cause was linked to the use of white phosphorus within 5 years, it took almost a century of strikes, bans, and taxes to stop its use in the industry. [source, comments]

> "this [insert project] was so successful despite its small budget"
> Look inside
> Exacerbated exploitation

TIL that more than half the drop in America’s total fertility rate is explained by women under the age of 19 now having next to no children [source, comments]

When we start fighting, there's repression, as violent and bloody as the country is poor.

Then bribery, symbolic victories that cost capitalists nothing but words. In recent years we've had gay marriage, in France the freedom (not right) of abortion made its way to the constitution, while budgets for Planned Parenthood and hospitals plummeted.

Capitalists feel entitled to state's money, spendings on services useful to the population is like stealing from them if they're not the ones benefitting from public contracts.

It takes mass mobilization, general strikes and factory occupations that stab capitalists right in their profits, for them to accept to give back a fraction from what they extract from the workers' labor. The fraction gets bigger as the possibility for a revolutionary mobilization grows, most capitalists would rather get nationalized (with compensation of course) than risk get the means of production seized by the class making society run.

TIL that Los Angeles and San Diego Purchase most of their water from a private corporation called 'The Wonderful Company', which functions as a holding company for billionaire couple Stewart and Lynda Resnick. POM Wonderful and FIJI Water are two of their business divisions. [source, comments]

TIL After his execution, the skin of slave-rebellion leader Nat Turner was turned into souvenir purses [source, comments]

TIL Most fathers of children born to teen mothers are over 20
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