• Canadian_anarchist
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    1 month ago

    Some hats even had full (dead) birds on them. It was a short lived trend as many people objected to it.

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      And because they ran out of birds. Passenger pigeons, for example, became extinct largely (Edit: partly. Also lots of other reasons for the slaughter, plus habitat loss. Thanks Wiki!) because they were turned into hats.

      Now I’m off to Wikipedia to check whether this fact I learned in childhood is true or not. And that’s why I have a donation to them on Autopay