doomhamster:

feathersescapism:

tilthat:

TIL that airplane pilots would announce that Jonas Salk was on board and passengers would burst into applause. Hotels routinely would upgrade him into their penthouse suites.

via reddit.com

For those who don’t know and don’t want to click thru to find out: Jonas Salk is the reason we in North America no longer live in terror of polio. He also refused to patent or profit from his vaccine. He also spent the last years of his life researching a vaccine for AIDS, long before that was cool and back when a lot of people were secretly hoping it really would just kill all the gays. So you’re damn right people applauded and gave free upgrades.

Reblogging again because this time I did click through, and because of the times in which we live: Jonas Salk was Jewish, and the child of immigrants. 

Reblogged 2 years ago from irailleth-archive (Originally from tilthat)
125,450 notes
Source: tilthat
  1. escapades-to-rivendell reblogged this from turandont
  2. that1sarcasticgeek reblogged this from turandont
  3. turandont reblogged this from arqandomtypo
  4. arqandomtypo reblogged this from driverpicksthemooseic
  5. ladymordecai reblogged this from ladymordecai
  6. leavemealonetoread reblogged this from moniquill
  7. theoddathenaeum reblogged this from hydrosspyross
  8. hydrosspyross reblogged this from sonyarebecchi
  9. sonyarebecchi reblogged this from cocoalover1956
  10. ttyltania reblogged this from witch-of-the-diaspora
  11. dragons134678 reblogged this from quantum-dragon
  12. loveaxb reblogged this from disahara
  13. girlfrombasingse reblogged this from untimely-yushi
  14. untimely-yushi reblogged this from westsemiteblues
  15. xiqido reblogged this from notfunctioningshipper
  16. riptide168 reblogged this from notfunctioningshipper
  17. notfunctioningshipper reblogged this from notfunctioningshipper
  18. krokulaan reblogged this from techturncoat
  19. techturncoat reblogged this from rhysforpresident
  20. effulgentpoet reblogged this from tilthat
  21. royalarchive2 reblogged this from bluerayofsunshine
  22. chibidracula reblogged this from not-squishy
  23. vitoliel reblogged this from amichalap
  24. amichalap reblogged this from random-tam
  25. supernaturallysteampunktrombone reblogged this from salvecambada