
450: No Such Thing As A Deep Drawer
No Such Thing As A Fish
The Freckles Come Off Your Lips
In 1921, in the newspapers, there was a worry about people kissing freckled girls on the cheeks. There was an anti-freckle medication that people were using to try and get rid of their freckles - but it was toxic if ingested. A group of middle-class women from Manhattan called the Ladies Health Protective Association covered two blocks with manure so they wouldn't be kissed. In poor societies that don't have kissing, Darwin's who met a lot of people in his life, different peoples, listed a bunch of alternatives to kissing in cultures. Like rubbing or patting of the arms, breasts or stomachs,. Or one man striking his own face with the hands or
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