Good Day DU (September 7, 2021)

[EarlG]

Today in History: September 7

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Question of the Day: What’s the silliest invention you have heard of?

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Today's milestones: Congratulations to the following active DU members!

Anniversaries
spinbaby (20 years), Garion_55 (20 years), mindfulNJ (18 years), Rastapopoulos (18 years), cannabis_flower (17 years), C_U_L8R (17 years), ChicagoRonin (16 years), tosh (16 years), INdemo (16 years), joedogs (16 years), raptor_rider (16 years), LuckyLib (16 years), dickthegrouch (16 years), prismpalette (15 years), Statistical (13 years), mjvpi (12 years), Alwaysna (9 years), dobleremolque (9 years), HAB911 (5 years), VPHawk (1 year), Earth-shine (1 year)

Posting milestones
Dream Girl (5000 posts)

New members who posted for the first time
Otto_Harper, dharma boots, H2Oart

[Aristus]

1. Any of those Victorian-Era anti-masturbation gizmos.

You had children working in factories, risking life and limb twelve hours a day under Dickensian conditions, and the era's moralizing muttonheads were worried that young kids were rubbing one out in-between death-defying stints at the loom.

So much so, that they felt compelled to invent chastity-belt contraptions to protect the morals of children who, if they were going to go blind or lose their senses, it would be due to the working conditions, and not any solitary recreation.

[Niagara]

2. Congrats on all Anniversaries and Milestones.

Welcome to DU new members!


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My answer is religion.