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JoeAltmaier
on Oct 13, 2014
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How English beat German as the language of science
Industrial output: at the WWI memorial in Kansas City, they state that for every car extant in the world at that time, there were 7 in the USA.
NoMoreNicksLeft
on Oct 13, 2014
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Including the 7 in the US?
mjevans
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Translating idiot: they implicitly meant 'in the rest of the world' instead of 'the world' (probably wrote it that way to begin with actually... and someone else probably 'made it shorter').
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