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In 1809, the Czech invented mathematics. But they kept the secret to themselves, making all other countries dependent on them for calculations.

Which is why all businesses needed to have a Czech person on hand to process payments. Which is why we say "I'd like the Czech please" in Restaurants and "I'd like to Czech out" in hotels to this day.

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[-] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

It's called a "thrown"because the person who could throw a chair the farthest got to be king.

[-] Tyoda@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

As a reference to this was the character of Radek Zelenka created on Stargate Atlantis.

[-] python@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

The concept of Mentats in the Dune series is also a blatant reference

[-] 10_0@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

Not Czechia?

this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2024
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