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What is something your country doesn't get enough credit for?
3 years ago by HandwovenConsensus to c/asktheworld
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Linux itself probably doesn't get enough credit. People still think it's an obscure nerd OS.
What else is an outcome of that? If it is indeed due to the educational policies, then there has to be other notable and recognizable outcomes. If there's nothing else notable, then I think the credit is where it is due, to Linus.
Spain: adding sticks to stuff, we invented:
Source, with other 7 inventions (without sticks):
10 Spanish Inventions You Can’t Live Without | by Embassy of Spain USA | SpainInTheUSA
Random foosball fun facts:
It's called "futbolín" (tiny soccer) in Spain.
There are 2 types (from Spanish Wikipedia):
The Spanish model, with the field curved downwards towards the center and the metal dolls with open legs. Picture (from here)
The international model, with plastic or wooden figures with their legs together (table football). Picture (from the previous link)
Ah ok, I misunderstood, the one I was thinking is this and was invented in Brazil, I didn't knoW that lol.
Futbolín is called Pebolim at least the region I'm from. This one is still famous today
Interesting, I didn't know about that. Video The Brazilian love of button football (YouTube).
Our version of that is "(bottle) cap soccer": CAMPEONATO FÚTBOL CHAPAS 1 OCTUBRE 2016 (YouTube), very similar the player moves the caps directly with their fingers.
Australia: Penicillin, the tank, yes the war machine, the electric refrigerator, WiFi, ultrasound, racecam, rotary blade lawnmower, polymer banknotes, spray on skin, pacemakers, cochlear implants, black box flight recorders, electric drills, Google maps, McCafe, the list goes on...
New Zealand. We built the first mechanical computer, the Totalizer. (Babbage designed one first, but never completed a working model.) We used it to calculate odds for horse races. It was gravity-powered and used the weight of a concrete block on a rope to turn gears.
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Linux. Finland.
Wouldn't have been created without the free universal education that provided Torvalds the free access to university's licenses and hardware.
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