This article reminded me of my dad telling me this story when I was rather young. He thought hormones in nun's urine was funny, but I was impressed with what medical science can do.
This. I joined LinkedIn a few years ago, and quickly discovered that 1. it is useless unless you spend time there making connections. I don't know if making connections is even useful. And 2. it's boring. So I quit going there. But they sent so many notifications, I had to quit, and they make leaving a rather painful time sink.
I was pretty jarred when he said "back in the '40s and '50s, during the Great Depression..." I shouldn't let it bother me, but history classes aren't what they should be.
Last month, we almost had a five-day string of holidays, with Friday the 13th, Valentines Day, Presidents Day, Lunar New Year, and Ash Wednesday, but alas, that was broken up by February 15th in the middle.