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Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL over 40 000 people have used the social security number 078 05 1120 in the United States.English
147·3 days agoIn 1938, wallet manufacturer the E. H. Ferree company in Lockport, New York decided to promote its product by showing how a Social Security card would fit into its wallets. A sample card, used for display purposes, was inserted in each wallet. Company Vice President and Treasurer Douglas Patterson thought it would be a clever idea to use the actual SSN of his secretary, Mrs. Hilda Schrader Whitcher.
Although the snafu gave her a measure of fame, it was mostly a nuisance. The FBI even showed up at her door to ask her about the widespread use of her number. In later years she observed: “They started using the number. They thought it was their own. I can’t understand how people can be so stupid. I can’t understand that.”
One embarrassing episode was the fault of the Social Security Board itself. In 1940 the Board published a pamphlet explaining the new program and showing a facsimile of a card on the cover. The card in the illustration used a made-up number of 219-09-9999. Sure enough, in 1962 a woman presented herself to the Provo, Utah Social Security office complaining that her new employer was refusing to accept her old Social Security number–219-09-9999. When it was explained that this could not possibly be her number, she whipped out her copy of the 1940 pamphlet to prove that yes indeed it was her number!
Wait, so the Thomas’s English Muffin was their invention?
jqubed@lemmy.worldto
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•As long as the temperature stays in a very narrow optimal range for me, it's over for you bitches!
14·5 days agoAll we have to do to stop her is put different shapes in the square hole
jqubed@lemmy.worldto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Polish general fired after anti-tank mines found in Ikea warehouseEnglish
2·7 days agoMan, is there anything IKEA doesn’t sell?
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Technology@lemmy.world•This EV Was Already Cheap, Then Dacia Knocked Off Nearly $6,000English
1·8 days ago300 km out of 24 kWh?
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That makes sense; I saw another post from op that looks the same