Dive Into 95 Mind-Blowing Facts That Will Completely Change How You See the World!
Ever wonder who really holds the purse strings in a marriage? Well, in Japan, it turns out the ladies are the CFOs of the household—husbands hand over their monthly paychecks and get an allowance from their wives. Talk about flipping the script on the “man of the house” stereotype! Interestingly, this isn’t a new phenomenon; some folks from Norway recall a time when handing over money was literally a “man’s chore.” So, if you ever find yourself wondering who’s really in charge of the money in your relationship, maybe it’s time to rethink the roles—because sometimes, the wallet tells the whole story. Want to dig deeper into these fascinating cultural tidbits? LEARN MORE.
TIL that in Japan, it is common practice among married couples for the woman to fully control the couple’s finances. The husbands’ hand over their monthly pay and receive an allowance from their wives.
Cyneganders:
Used to be like this in Norway too. My grandparents (both sides, actually) had plaques in the kitchen with ‘the chores of the man/woman’, and one of those of the man was to hand over the money.
TIL the Falkland Islands used to have a native wolf called the warrah that was so friendly and unafraid of humans it would literally swim out to greet boats. Settlers wiped it out in the 1800s because it was too friendly to run away. It was the first canid to go extinct in recorded history.
rampantradius:
In The Voyage of the Beagle (1839), Charles Darwin documented the warrah’s remarkable tameness, noting how these wolves showed little fear of humans, often approaching closely and even swimming out to boats. He described their curiosity as a key trait, which made them vulnerable to hunting.
They wiped them out just because they assumed it was a threat to livestock like sheep, when in reality it mostly fed on small animals and scavenged from the sea. The sheep was a new animal in it’s ecosystem, so the warrah were probably just curious as Darwin comments on their curious nature. But European settlers had zero tolerance for any predators, even the potential ones.
Also for their fur and they were also killed for museum specimens, cus they were the only native land mammal on the island.
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