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"autism didn't exist back in my day" (lemmy.nz)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

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dude was an absolute character

In between those events, he won 22 games for the Philadelphia Athletics; [...] toured the nation in a melodrama called The Stain of Guilt; courted, married, and became separated from May Wynne Skinner of Lynn, Massachusetts; saved a woman from drowning; accidentally shot a friend through the hand; and was bitten by a lion."

the wikipedia just RANDOMLY DROPPED that he was bitten by a LION with no context?!?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Waddell

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[-] QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

my grandpa obsessed over fishing, TV sports, and Volkswagen beetles, every year for Christmas I would get him a little beetle figurine. he is 100% the source of autism in our family