Waiters In Paris Once Went On Strike Over Mustaches (Cool Weird Awesome 753)

This month in 1907 waiters in Paris went on strike. Yes, they wanted better pay and improved working conditions, but their most high profile demand: they wanted the right to grow mustaches.

By |2024-04-12T07:13:26-04:00April 12, 2022|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |

Why Shave With A Razor When You Can Use X-Rays? (Cool Weird Awesome 389)

Shaving dates back tens of thousands of years, and it's gone in and out of fashion more times than we can count. And for a time in 1945, there was an idea to replace razors with a series of hair treatments involving X-rays (!)

By |2024-09-25T07:57:28-04:00September 25, 2020|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , , , |
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