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What is the creepiest thing you’ve seen in the woods, or in the mountains, or in deserts, or caves, or in small towns, or in big cities, or in hotels, or in remote or rural areas, or while asleep, or home alone, or while on large bodies of water, or while on an aircraft or a nautical vessel?
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QuestionGuy
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TIL the 1970 song “In the Summertime” by Mungo Jerry was used in a 1990s UK advertisement for a campaign against drunk-driving, because of the lyric “have a drink, have a drive, go out and see what you can find.” The ad showed a group of drinkers at a rural pub getting killed when their car crashes.
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whatilearned
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TIL the song ‘Yankee Doodle’ was used by British soldiers before the Revolutionary War to mock American soldiers, stereotyping them as rural simpletons who would think putting a feather in their caps would make them ‘Macaroni’ (i.e. cool), but was later used by Americans as an anthem of defiance.
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whatilearned
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TIL about the “3-S Treatment” which stands for “Shoot Shovel and Shut up” a method used primarily in rural areas to prevent restrictions being place upon owned land due to the presence of Endangered Species by killing them and burying the evidence before they could be discovered by the government.
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whatilearned
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