Fascinating Historical Facts They Skipped In Class

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Theodora 8 hours ago

#44 while it look like the design of a 3 and half floppy, it's actuallly a 6gb laser disc used as WORM drives

Miranda 3 hours ago

Theodora,

I wondered what that was. I’m 50 years old and have never seen one of those.

Valeri 5 hours ago

Fun fact, the germans and the french have started BOTH world wars. They are fighting yet again today.

Dalton 9 min ago

Valeri, Check your facts. You are very wrong. The Germans invaded Poland when WW2 started. All our countries fought in that war. Britain and France declared war against Germany.

Syd 2 hours ago

#7 Don't have to wonder. My father spent all of World War II in Japan as a POW.

#46 Get your vaccine. Do the right thing.

Miranda 1 hour ago

Syd,

Which vaccine?
Covid? Hell no.
Polio? Obviously.

Lewis 30 min ago

#34 Not very exciting propaganda. Nixon was a blatant traitor to the United States and he knew it. He kept the war going for money killing twice as many Americans as had already died in Vietnam. His military started desperately carpet bombing South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, killing millions and still lost. He was scum and so was everybody that helped him. Like those dirt bags Wolfowitz, Cheney and their CIA creeps. And Bush 2 was stupider than hell and let them destabilize the middle east by attacking Iraq, wasting a trillion dollars and f-ing the economy in 2008.

It's super wild to see this "invasion note" from when Japan invaded the Philippines in the 1940s, introducing their own currency (the Filipinos had destroyed, dumped, or sent away their own currency). These were colloquially known as "Mickey Mouse Bills" because there were no reserves to back up the bills, which were constantly becoming worth less and less during a period of terrible inflation.