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Name something the Germans invented without googling (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Rockets

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wasn't that china?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

China invented fireworks around 1k years ago, but Germany made the first one that went to space (the V2, the same one they used to bomb a bunch of places in WWII), and scientists from Germany helped to develop rockets a lot further after Operation Paperclip