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[Lighthearted content] Numbers often used to make silly jokes around Europe (preview.redd.it)

submitted 9 months ago by Blaze to c/europe@feddit.de

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[–] Cheery@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The number refers to the reported time of death of pope John Paul II, 9:37 PM or 21:37, as Poland uses a 24 hour system. The use of the number is connected with memes about the late pope, as there was almost a cult folllowing for JP2, noone was allowed to even criticize him, after his death, with time popped out evidence of the pope not being such a great person, so people started meme'ing on him.

[–] Blaze 4 points 9 months ago

Thanks!