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Old Nov 19th 2017, 8:53 am
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Ok, resurrecting and old forum acronym/thread "What I Learned Today"...

... because this is a shocker. Can you believe, Australia doesn't have Amazon yet ?!!
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Old Nov 19th 2017, 8:56 am
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Originally Posted by Shard
Ok, resurrecting and old forum acronym/thread "What I Learned Today"...

... because this is a shocker. Can you believe, Australia doesn't have Amazon yet ?!!
Many of us use the UK and US versions, better than anything Australia could manage.
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Old Nov 19th 2017, 12:51 pm
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... because this is a shocker. Can you believe, Australia doesn't have Amazon yet ?!!
They tried. The first orders were boomerangs but they all went back.
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Last week I met someone who had never heard of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", nor The Underground Railroad.
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Last week I met someone who had never heard of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", nor The Underground Railroad.
Technically, that not something you 'learned' but it's likely something the other person learned.

I can't say I know much about either of those two stories (?) although I have heard of the first one.
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They tried. The first orders were boomerangs but they all went back.
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. Can you believe, Australia doesn't have Amazon yet ?!!
Given the miserable pace of continental drift these days, I'm not surprised.
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Given the miserable pace of continental drift these days, I'm not surprised.
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Technically, that not something you 'learned' but it's likely something the other person learned.

I can't say I know much about either of those two stories (?) although I have heard of the first one.
I thought Uncle Tom's Cabin would be common knowledge even if you have read the book. The Underground Railroad isn't a book but a part of Canadian history and I'm surprised, very surprised that it wasn't taught in Canadian schools. If it were taught then Uncle Tom's Cabin would have been too.
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Given the miserable pace of continental drift these days, I'm not surprised.
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I learned yesterday that there are (born & bred) Canadians who do not know that French is an official language in Canada.
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Originally Posted by Shirtback
I learned yesterday that there are (born & bred) Canadians who do not know that French is an official language in Canada.
I think that could be in the Things you didn't know but should have done, or are about to find out thread.
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I think that could be in the Things you didn't know but should have done, or are about to find out thread.
I did think about crossposting
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I learned yesterday that there are (born & bred) Canadians who do not know that French is an official language in Canada.
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Originally Posted by bats
I thought Uncle Tom's Cabin would be common knowledge even if you have read the book. The Underground Railroad isn't a book but a part of Canadian history and I'm surprised, very surprised that it wasn't taught in Canadian schools. If it were taught then Uncle Tom's Cabin would have been too.
I remember LeVar Burton doing a children's program on PBS about the Underground Railroad. I can still remember one of the songs the slaves sang to teach others what route to take.
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