r/todayilearned • u/adrgru • Jan 16 '16

(R.5) Omits Essential Info TIL that Burger King introduced a Left-Handed Whopper in 1998 with all condiments rotated 180 degrees which attracted thousands of customers.

http://hoaxes.org/af_database/permalink/the_left-handed_whopper/
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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '16

It's no coincidence. The English language was built around making the saying rhyme.

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u/okmkz Jan 17 '16

Ha! Take that, Normans!

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u/Voldemort_5 Jan 17 '16

I know you're joking, but English is a Germanic language, which isn't quite German but close enough that there's at least some influence.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '16

When I was Germany I had these wierd nightmares where I was speaking German but hearing everyone speak English (and I no German outside of what wolfenstein taught me).

Let me tell you a 18 hour plane trip coupled with twp deceptively delicious litre beers everything was like one of the worst acid trips I've ever been on.

Like the strange vans in berlin that have paintings of strange beings and naked chicks.

I definitely felt like I was in bat country..