Bongo1020
Bongo1020 t1_iu3lzam wrote
Reply to TIL about anti ninja floors in Japan. They were purposefully made to squeak as to alert people of intruders. by tpb01
I think this is false, an urban legend and is maybe a simply a consequence of the aging construction. From what I recall when I visited Nijo in Kyoto they outright state that it may simply be caused by how the floors are secured with nail over decades/centuries naills would gouge out the wood slightly. The result was that when you walk on the floorboards the plank shifts, scraping the nail and causing the characteristic screech.
Bongo1020 t1_it710oe wrote
Reply to comment by TheDeadlySquid in [OC] Most of the items pawned in a poor district in 1836 Glasgow were CLOTHES, especially WOMEN's clothes by Equal-Crew-3367
The beds? We keep them in the bedroom.
Bongo1020 t1_iqvcpcz wrote
Reply to comment by BakkenMan in TIL Britan was the first country to use Agent Orange during the Malayan Emergency in 1952 which the US viewed as justification to use it in Vietnam by shogunsft
I'm on the move so I can't provide the best source.
The Wikipedia article mentions this and cites:
Burleigh, Michael (2013). Small Wars, Faraway Places: Global Insurrection and the Making of the Modern World 1945–1965.
Bongo1020 t1_iquz41p wrote
Reply to TIL Britan was the first country to use Agent Orange during the Malayan Emergency in 1952 which the US viewed as justification to use it in Vietnam by shogunsft
It was called an "emergency" by London because Insurance policies don't cover damaged incured as a reuslt of wars or civilwars.
Bongo1020 t1_iz9sdtk wrote
Reply to [OC] Visualizing the Latin American migrant population in Europe. by latinometrics
Do these numbers include people who gain citizenship via Jus Sanguinis?
I had a university teacher that was born Brazilian but had Italian citizenship via her grandfather.