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

submitted 21 hours 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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[–] digdilem@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

That milk forms such a big part of western diets considering where it comes from.

[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

it's the lactose tolerance pyramid scheme

[–] pebbles@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah dude the more I think of milk as sexual assault the stranger it feels.

[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 18 minutes ago

In the staff fridge at work someone used to label their milk as "breast milk" and people would go eeeww. Like it was snot or something. But from a cow's breasts? Fine! So weird.