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What's something that's taken for granted that occasionally makes you think, wait wtf? (feddit.uk)

submitted 4 days ago by manicdave@feddit.uk to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For example, Britain's national mapping organisation's brand is associated in our national consciousness with going to a small shop in a quaint village to get a map showing how to walk up a mountain. It's called Ordnance Survey. If that sounds like Artillery Research to you, that's because the project started because the king wanted to know how to accurately bomb Scotland.

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[–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They are made of steel, lmao... how silly do they think we are.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I believe they're mostly made of alluminium

[–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Have you ever thrown a can at the bin and had it land in Qatar international?

[–] Damage@feddit.it 1 points 2 days ago

I mean, if I had the power of Rolls-Royce turbine engines in my arms, I could probably do it