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TIL that German speaking countries have sinks specifically for vomiting called Speibecken or Kotzbecken

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Qw09 TIL that in England during the First World War German Shepherd dogs were renamed ‘Alsatians’ owing to anti-German sentiment. It’s only relatively recently that the correct term 'German Shepherd’ has come back into common usage.
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