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Apparently it's an American tradition to not use names of things from countries you hate/are at war with

In ww1 sauerkraut became Liberty cabbage

During the cold war Molotov cocktails became bottle bombs or improvised explosives

And finally post 9/11 french fries became freedom fries.

(Ik we weren't at war with France it's because they refused to support the us during the Iraq war which I'm aware was a stupid pointless war to begin with no offense to anyone who fought in it)
 
Jasonfan89 said:
Apparently it's an American tradition to not use names of things from countries you hate/are at war with

In ww1 sauerkraut became Liberty cabbage

During the cold war Molotov cocktails became bottle bombs or improvised explosives

And finally post 9/11 french fries became freedom fries.

(Ik we weren't at war with France it's because they refused to support the us during the Iraq war which I'm aware was a stupid pointless war to begin with no offense to anyone who fought in it)
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Don't forget how the number of German language newspapers in the US plummeted to practically zero during WWI and grandpappy Drumpf had to change the family name to Trump to avoid anti German persecution.
 
The same amount of concrete used to build the Hoover dam was used to build the Empire State Building

The spire of the Empire State Building was originally meant to be a docking station for Zeppelins

The statue of liberty is facing towards France and a mini replica in Paris is facing New York.

The city of Rio hoped holding the Olympics would boost the economy but it only plunged the city into further financial ruin

The 1988 Olympic games were the last Olympics held before the fall of the Soviet Union. The USSR took home a gold medal record that has never been broken.

The modern Olympic games have only been postponed twice both because of wars. (edit; make that three times this time due to corona chan)

The killers of the 1972 Munich massacre were partly aided by west German neo Nazis

The 1972 Munich games were the first Olympics held in Germany since the 1936 games on Berlin
 
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Jasonfan89 said:
Apparently it's an American tradition to not use names of things from countries you hate/are at war with

In ww1 sauerkraut became Liberty cabbage

During the cold war Molotov cocktails became bottle bombs or improvised explosives

And finally post 9/11 french fries became freedom fries.

(Ik we weren't at war with France it's because they refused to support the us during the Iraq war which I'm aware was a stupid pointless war to begin with no offense to anyone who fought in it)
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You forgot liberty steaks, you fool.
 
If you were randomly born somewhere and sometime in the universe, chances seem to be you'd be born among a "stone age" hunters/gatherer people, living on a Titan-like world, with a red dwarf sun, at least billions of light years away, and eons in the future. As the Wikipedia Titan article claims, you'd likely breathe in hydrogen, metabolize it with acetylene instead of glucose, and exhale methane instead of carbon dioxide. Liquid methane or ethane would be "water," water ice the "rock."

1) Human history is about 100,000 years, yet only the last 10,000 years have seen agriculture and industrialization. Also Titan-like worlds lack the means to make fire.

2) The "habitable zone" of a Titan-like world is wider than that of an Earth-like world because of the "inverse square law" with light/heat. This means more worlds can be Titan-like than Earth-like.

3) As shown by Titan, a wider variety of sizes of worlds can be Titan-like. Earth-like worlds have to be above a certain size to maintain an atmosphere and life, as seen with Mars. So again, more worlds can be Titan-like than Earth-like.

4) The majority of stars in the universe are red dwarfs.

5) It's a big universe.

6) It's also a very long-lasting universe.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
If you were randomly born somewhere and sometime in the universe, chances seem to be you'd be born among a "stone age" hunters/gatherer people, living on a Titan-like world, with a red dwarf sun, at least billions of light years away, and eons in the future. As the Wikipedia Titan article claims, you'd likely breathe in hydrogen, metabolize it with acetylene instead of glucose, and exhale methane instead of carbon dioxide. Liquid methane or ethane would be "water," water ice the "rock."
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I'm such a sped, I read Titanic.like world and couldn't understand what the fuck you were on about. I think my time has come to become an hero
 
Pepto-Bismol was originally invented to save the lives of children and babies who had come down with cholera. The original name for it was 'Mixture Cholera Infantum'.
 
Call of duty/gun sperging here but....



The fg-42 is listed as a "rifle" under the weapons category in call of duty world war 2 yet in real life the FG-42 was designed and classified as a lmg or light machine gun. As was the b.a.r. Browning automatic rifle.
 
In 2003, MGM attempted to buy Universal Pictures from Vivendi, but didn’t had enough money for their bid so they’ve dropped out.

Had MGM pulled it off though, they would’ve owned the rights to Universal’s film library including Jurassic Park, ET, Jaws, Schindler’s List, Scarface, To Kill a Mockingbird, Do The Right Thing, and Fast and the Furious and the theme parks. They would have also become the future owners of DreamWorks Animation.

MGM’S KERKORIAN DOUBLES DOWN IN BID FOR UNIVERSAL

Kirk Kerkorian, the billionaire financier behind Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, wants to double down on his risky Hollywood bet after failing to land a rich sale price for his legendary studio. Kerkorian, th…
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Between 1943 and 1944 the Germans despite being in the apex of ww2 could have actually gained a lot of ground. The invasions of Hungary and Romaina were relatively bloodless. Due to those countries being one of the few still sympathetic to the Nazi cause by that time. Had Hitler not broken the pact with the Soviet Union and focused the war effort on keeping the allies from Enacting the D-Day invasion in 1944 the Eastern front could have been held for at least a few more years. This in addition to not invading Russia in an attempt to seize Moscow a fatal mistake French conquer Napoleon Bonaparte made almost a century earlier.


Also in 1945 general Rommel was able to draft and negotiate a truce with the Allies under the condition the German forces surrender occupied Europe up to the prewar claimed territory (France Belgium Poland including Hitler's birth place Austria) it is believed this is what lead Rommel to being executed for "treason" and the refusal of any surrender, which ultimately lead to the downfall of Berlin and the division of Germany by NATO and the USSR.
 
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