Comment on Day 743 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Fun fact about the term “Jerry can”:
British gas cans in ww2 sucked and everybody knew it. German cans stacked neatly and so British soldiers would steal them, and eventually reverse engineered and produced them. A slang for Germans at the time was a “Jerry”, thus, making the stolen German gas cans and their design, a “Jerry can”.
MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s actually super interesting. WWII and WWI are probably some of the most interesting eras to me, so i love learning any facts i can about the era