what fact about our current world would freak people out if it were a newspaper headline a century ago?

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Some news that would be completely mundane today but scary or shocking in the past.

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Quite a few people would be probably surprised that colonial empires are no more

as for headlines: British PM Rishi Sunak negotiates Scottish independence with First Minister of Scotland Humza Yousaf

The only known sentence that is fatal to white british men circa 1900.

Neocolonialism is alive and well though. Today we have more slaves making more products, than ever before !