Duke-Kickass
Duke-Kickass t1_ituvpfp wrote
Reply to TIL that France and Spain "went to war" over a few stop signs in the 1970s and 1980s when France built two new roads that crossed a Spanish road and installed new stop signs which Spanish citizens continually removed over and over again for years. This became known as the "War of the Stop Signs". by AxelNotRose
“Arret! Or I shall say ‘Arret’ again!”
Duke-Kickass t1_iretiv1 wrote
Reply to comment by bluedevil_zg in TIL: Beer Consumption Increases Human Attractiveness to Malaria Mosquitoes by [deleted]
You got a late start drinking beer. Work hard to make up for that. Cheers!
Duke-Kickass t1_iretbwq wrote
Well… that explains a lot. 🍺🦟😩
Duke-Kickass t1_iqxktwp wrote
Reply to comment by FindTheRemnant in TIL a German scientist named Alfred Wegener was ridiculed in 1912 for advancing the idea that the continents were adrift. Ridiculed as having “wandering pole plague.” or “Germanic pseudo-science” and accused Wegener of toying with the evidence to spin himself into “a state of auto-intoxication." by Hot----------Dog
Some The Science™-denier already downvoted my comment. 👩🔬
Duke-Kickass t1_iqxeguo wrote
Reply to TIL a German scientist named Alfred Wegener was ridiculed in 1912 for advancing the idea that the continents were adrift. Ridiculed as having “wandering pole plague.” or “Germanic pseudo-science” and accused Wegener of toying with the evidence to spin himself into “a state of auto-intoxication." by Hot----------Dog
And no way the scientific community enforces an orthodoxy in this day and age.
Right?
RIGHT???
Duke-Kickass t1_itwe5m4 wrote
Reply to comment by verrius in TIL that France and Spain "went to war" over a few stop signs in the 1970s and 1980s when France built two new roads that crossed a Spanish road and installed new stop signs which Spanish citizens continually removed over and over again for years. This became known as the "War of the Stop Signs". by AxelNotRose
No shit? I did not know that. I’ve driven in Quebec, but have only been in de Guelle airport in France.
TIL something interesting about stop signs in the Francophone world. Thanks!!