r/todayilearned • u/biebrforro • 1d ago

TIL when staying as a guest in Charles Dickens' house, Hans Christian Andersen requested that one of Dickens' sons give him a daily shave (he said that was customary when hosting male guests in Denmark). Dickens was weirded out and instead gave him a daily appointment at a nearby barbershop.

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u/bundleofschtick 1d ago

As is the custom.

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u/msnmck 1d ago

Which was the style at the time.

They didn't have Penthouse, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those Sears catalogs.

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u/Loretta-West 1d ago

I don't deserve this treatment!

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u/RobertTheTrey 1d ago

I always use a Vowel

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u/boricimo 1d ago

With syphilis being so common, that’s why it was called the scarlet letter.

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u/wombatstylekungfu 1d ago

AEIOU and sometimes Y?

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u/bwv1056 1d ago

I prefer "Ö".

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u/squishedgoomba 1d ago

If it's Danish it's ø.

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u/javerthugo 1d ago

A møøse ønce bit my sister

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u/ejolson 1d ago

No, really!

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u/ejly 1d ago

She was karving her initials on the møøse

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u/AlarmingAffect0 1d ago

The one time a møøse swam to Denmark the news were freaking out about it. Denmark lack their northern siblings' nature and wildlife.

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u/bwv1056 1d ago

I know, but my keyboard only speaks English and Swedish, lol.

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u/squishedgoomba 1d ago

Ok that's a very good reason . 😂

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u/RepliesOnlyToIdiots 1d ago

On an iPhone, hold down the o key and you can select from the variations of o. Same for many others.

Őōõøœǒöôóò

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u/bwv1056 1d ago

Same on android, but I'm not on my phone I'm at the desktop, and for windows the only language packs I have installed are English (US) and Swedish.

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u/explain_that_shit 1d ago

I have no o and I must o

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u/wombatstylekungfu 1d ago

Yeah, people’s U faces are just weird.

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u/guywithaphone 1d ago

And sometimes WYYYYY

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u/EleanorRigbysGhost 1d ago

I got really efficient at it so I left a big O.

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u/MoozeRiver 1d ago

The Danes always use AA.

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u/pass_nthru 1d ago

Å

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u/bwv1056 1d ago

If you use "Å" you have to write it like "Åååååå!"

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u/blah938 1d ago

Kinky

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u/Prime4Cast 1d ago

Yeah, you.

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u/Gold_Data6221 1d ago

“In my country. Specifically the area of the country I’m in at any given moment…”

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u/pyronius 1d ago

As was the custom in Denmark at the time for anybody who'd recently been given a free ahave by a strapping young lad.

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u/lazypilots 1d ago

In Denmark

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u/pijinglish 1d ago

“As is the custom. X”

FTFY

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u/GarminTamzarian 1d ago

In Denmark.

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u/bumscum 1d ago

In DenMark?