Lopen's Left Arm@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoTIL that a bunch of medieval manuscripts featured illustrations of knights fighting giant snails, and no one knows whywww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square118fedilinkarrow-up1601arrow-down116cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1585arrow-down1external-linkTIL that a bunch of medieval manuscripts featured illustrations of knights fighting giant snails, and no one knows whywww.bbc.comLopen's Left Arm@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square118fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareafraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·11 months agoI read once on reddit that a dominos pizza guy claims people still occasionally demand the pizza for free since it took more than 30 minutes to arrive. A promotion that ran for a few months 33 years ago.
minus-squareDrivebyhaiku@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·11 months agoBut immortalized in stuff like the Ninja Turtles movie and various other tv shows. Exactly same principle!
minus-squareChocrates@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·11 months agoGood lord, that really stuck in our culture.
I read once on reddit that a dominos pizza guy claims people still occasionally demand the pizza for free since it took more than 30 minutes to arrive.
A promotion that ran for a few months 33 years ago.
But immortalized in stuff like the Ninja Turtles movie and various other tv shows. Exactly same principle!
Good lord, that really stuck in our culture.
Never forget