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Axolotlist t1_je7nyny wrote

Unfortunately, his brother, the previous king, was a nazi. He had an understanding with Hitler, that he would be placed back on the throne as a puppet ruler, with his American wife as queen, when the Germans conquered Britain. The British government had to exile him to the Bahamas, with a comfy job of course, and keep him under round the clock surveillance.

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Axolotlist t1_j6k6jaa wrote

Here's a good one for you. In 1998, the Alberta government changed the name of one of the Rocky Mountains from "Chinaman's Peak" to "Ha Ling Peak", because it was deemed to be offensive. Ha Ling was a Chinese railway labourer who did two things: he scaled the mountain in 1896 to win a bet, and to honour his fellow Chinese railway workers, he named it Chinaman's Peak.

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Axolotlist t1_j6iaepf wrote

Yeah, if I remember correctly, the main reason the movie industry concentrated in California, is because the early camera needed lots of light exposure, so they built their sets outside, with no roofs, to get use of free sunshine. In Hollywood, they could work all year round.

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