The Pentagon, headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense, was constructed during WWII. It was built with segregated bathrooms due to Virginia’s racial segregation laws.… Read More
In 1439, the parliament of King Henry VI proclaimed that kissing was banned in England, out of concern for “helth and welfare” during an epidemic of plague.
source: Leprosy in Medieval England by Carole Rawcliffe (277)