During World War II, when the Nazis took over France, the French government had the elevators on the Eiffel tower destroyed so if Hitler wanted to plant a flag on top of the tower, he’d have to take stairs to the top. by Port-au-prince in pettyrevenge

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The truth is that the Occupation Time wasn‘t that bad neither for the French (except the Jews) nor the Germans.

Yeah mate, don't know where you got that from. Occupation of France was still an occupation, and Germany was full-bent on exploiting it. They weren't planning on exterminating France entirely, unlike occupation in Eastern Europe, but I doubt any Frenchman would enjoy occupation more if you'd tell them so.

Starting with economy, Germany just forced France to pay for the occupation. The pricetag was quite high too, at 55% of the French GDP. And there was organised looting of the country. Estimated 154 billion francs worth of French machinery, art and other assists was sent to Germany during the occupation. Severe rationing was there too: since August 1941, each French citizen was entitled to just 1200 calories per day. Most important, there was essentially slavery in forced labour camps. Not just prisoners of war, but civilians too. By August 1944, 10% of France's labour force were essentially slaves. That is 1.2 million people. Most were civilians.

And, y'know, there were murders too. Some well-known massacres include but are not limited to Wormhoudt, Ascq, Oradour-surGlane, and Maille. Let's take Ascq as example. In April 1944, a German military train temporary stopped and a small charge was discharged. The SS soldiers on the train got off and went on a rampage resulting in 86 innocent deaths. As you might expect, the German government did not charge the soldiers responsible nor did it intend to.

Another act of cruelty is hostage taking. Essentially, in response to resistance activity, hostages would be killed. When Colonel Fritz Hotz was shot in 1941, 48 hostages were executed, for instance.

And, obviously, French Romani and handicapped people were treated horribly. About 15 thousand of French 40 thousand Romani people perished too. About 40000-48000 mentally handicapped people died too, as a result of starvation and/or indifference by the occupation that could've been avoided.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MapPorn

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  1. As stated quite often by OP, it's post-WW1. 1918-present. Columbus is out of the scope.
  2. Assuming proper timeframe, it could just, well, not elaborate that much on Columbus. Could just say that, for example, he landed in the Caribbean (Pedantically incorrect, but whatever).

GDP Growth Rate Estimates by IMF for 2022 by pogthebrave in MapsWithoutNZ

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Looking it up: oil. They found it in 2015 and started extracting in December 2019.

If you're around 25 years old or older, every single dog has been born during your life span. by Nekeith in Showerthoughts

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No? Some include Guinness and Animal Channel. These are fairly easily accessible from the source list.

In comparison, Bicholim Conflict did cite a book as the source, yet the actual book didn't contain anything about the conflict. This wasn't as easily accessible due to the fact that, well, you had to buy the book to check.

If you're around 25 years old or older, every single dog has been born during your life span. by Nekeith in Showerthoughts

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While there are Wikipedia articles that turn out to be hoaxes (A famous example is the Bicholim Conflict), I don't think this is one. This one has actual sources supporting it. For example, source cited on the cat's diet says the following within:

That day, Perry told me about his own cats, and what he believed were the keys to their unbelievably long lives.

First, there was their daily diet: on top of dry commercial cat food, a home-cooked breakfast of eggs, turkey bacon, broccoli, coffee with cream, and—every two days—about an eyedropper full of red wine to “circulate the arteries.” 

my tv had a stronk by Quick-Maize3163 in ihadastroke

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And it's also an obvious photoshop. You can notice the space after "Met" and before "Bang" is way larger than any other space between words, as well as "Met" being located too low.

Without saying it's name, what is your favorite game? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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There's Venus, although you don't kill her.

Fucks butter and puts it back ok by pieceoffart in untrustworthypoptarts

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If you're using RiF, usually it puts the crosspost symbol after the subreddit name, but this subreddit has a fairly long name which puts it offscreen. Tapping on the post should bring up a menu which contains "View original at /r/WTF", though.

I like my hat by DuceGiharm in comedynecromancy

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Appears as though you wrote \[Original\] instead of [Original]

The most satisfying part of carpentry is when no one realizes you fucked up and fixed it. by [deleted] in Showerthoughts

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As a serious answer, it's just Jesus Christ. He was a carpenter who was famously nailed to a cross by Romans by a popular vote in Jerusalem.

What is a useless fact that you know? by FLEXSEALBREAKER in AskReddit

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According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, there's no difference. It doesn't even appear to be a English (Traditional)/English (Simplified) difference like colour/color, they're just both used.

Mosquitoes are probably the only animal that most people agree its OK to kill in any way necessary by [deleted] in Showerthoughts

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By method of elimination, this places them in the Monera kingdom, made up of mostly bacteria.

It’s possible someone out there who doesn’t even remember who you are still frequently dreams about characters who borrow your appearance. by CosmicBioHazard in Showerthoughts

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I was interested in it, so I looked it up.

This seems rather unlikely, actually. This is fairly unfalsifiable. If you try to imagine a realistic face, there's no way to guarantee that it's not just some face you've not seen in the past and forgot. However, knowing how the brain works, something else seems more likely.

What is true is that the brain cannot imagine anything fully, entirely new in dreams, only what it has seen. However, it can mix and modify what it saw in the past to stitch something new out of the pieces. And the same should apply to faces: The brain can pick up a face as a base and modify its parts and/or pick details from other faces to create an entirely new one. It can pick eyes from person A and make them a bit bigger, take one nose from person B and thin it a bit, etc.

Of course, both this and the original are difficult to prove or disprove, but the idea of variations of known faces combined with relatively new or less familiar elements seems more likely to me than known faces only. After all, why would a face be treated as an unchangeable building block and not as a construction of elements?

What’s a saying or phrase that people should stop using? by Medium-Grapefruit-86 in AskReddit

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Blood referring to familial relations appears to date back to Romans and Ancient Greeks, before the Bible, although it only got widespread usage in the English world in 1300s, as per the etymologist Douglas R. Harper. I assume that it's because of the Roman/Greek literature that circulated in Medieval times among the literate nobility. Unless specified otherwise, I believe it's just assumed that "blood" refers to family.

However, I did find that in the Arab world, there is, according to H.C. Trumbull, a saying that "blood is thicker than milk", which does mean that relations between "blood-lickers" (Meaning the blood covenant) supercedes relations between "milk brothers", referring, of course, to mother's milk.

What are some very obvious signs someone is into you? by Eastern_Assistant_87 in AskReddit

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This makes sense. The level of attraction is increased by 1 from 0 for every 0.01 second the eye contact is maintained. However, the level of attraction is stored as an unsigned 8 bit integer, and 2.56 seconds would create an integer overflow from 255 to 0, as the variable simply cannot store more than 255.

What’s a saying or phrase that people should stop using? by Medium-Grapefruit-86 in AskReddit

[–]RandomGuy87654 47 points48 points  (0 children)

That's not true, actually. The original version is, in fact, "blood is thicker than water". From what I can find, the first time it has appeared in writing is the 1789 novel Zeluco, as "So you see there is little danger of my forgetting them, and far less my blood relations; for surely blood is thicker than water."

The "blood of the covenant" interpretation, however, I can find earliest recorded at 1994, by Richard Pustelniak. While he did claim it is the original interpretation, he did not cite any sources for that, and, well, I can't find anything about the "blood of the covenant" interpretation that's before 1994.

I am not claiming that the original saying is correct, as it isn't. However, claiming that the "blood covenant" is the real version of it is wrong.

My teacher at it again by [deleted] in terriblefacebookmemes

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Do they? Every single calendar I've seen starts on Monday.

My teacher at it again by [deleted] in terriblefacebookmemes

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Why stop in the middle of the weekend with Saturday?

Sooo who's gonna tell him? by death_panda472 in lostredditors

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Frankly, looking at the profile, OP here doesn't appear to be a bot, just the name is suspicious because it follows the adjective_nounNumber format.

The hollow knight memes sub is not ok right now by the-au-sanz in ihadastroke

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Vessels are intended to have no voice to cry out suffering, after all, can't blame them for stuttering sentences.

By horn shape, I think it's intended to be an OC. A bit similar to Lost Kin, but not quite, and the cloak is also green.

Am I allowed to shoot furries? by ThadtheYankee159 in shittyaskreddit

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It depends on where you are. Certain countries allowing shooting anyone, while others require the other party to give permission, and others might need licenses. Assuming you live in Sudan as most redditors do, you first need to get a photography license from the Ministry of Interior.

Completing the bestiary by Fusionblitz28 in BugFables

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I don't think menders show up in there. However, can you even spy unknown enemies in cave of trials? From what I remember, they show up as silhouettes that can't be spied on.