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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

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 · 1 year ago

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

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100 years ago today, a loaf of bread cost one billion Deutsche Marks.

And by billion they meant twelve zeroes.

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