Pupu Platter 190: Are you superstitious? Friday the 13th is here!

Did you know that a 1907 novel called “Friday, the Thirteenth,” by Thomas W. Lawson, may be partially responsible for spreading the superstition that it’s an unlucky day? It was a business scare story, in which a stock broker engineers a Wall Street panic by exploiting the superstition, according to Wikipedia. Supposedly, fear of bad luck today will cost the U.S. economy some $900 million in canceled or postponed activities, but this sounds like a just-so story, published once in National…
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