Ancient women’s self-defense gloves from 1850s London have been uncovered, offering insight into historical personal safety measures for women.
Women’s self-defense gloves from the 1850’s, London
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TIL that Tom Lehrer – MIT mathematician, satirist, and the guy who wrote both the Harvard fight song and a song teaching kids the periodic table – invented the Jell-O shot in the 1950s to sneak booze into a government Christmas party.
Tom Lehrer, renowned MIT mathematician, singer-songwriter, and satirist, passed away at age 97. His influence spanned music, comedy, and academia.
A Warsaw police officer with experimental body armour in 1921.
In 1921, a Warsaw police officer was documented wearing early experimental body armour, marking an unusual development in law enforcement gear of the era.
