• ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Fun fact: during WWII, about 10% of the men drafted by the UK were sent down into the coal mines instead of going off to war. The career miners resented these men and would often haze them with amusing high-jinx like allowing the elevator cages to free-fall for a while during their initial descents. For bonus points, they were often ridiculed and abused in public for not going off to war.