One of the biggest misconceptions is that people from completely different backgrounds can’t get along.

My fiancé is a nerdy white guy and has been in a notoriously rough jail for the past seven months. I never thought I’d be able to say this, but he started a Dungeons & Dragons group there and became the Dungeon Master. People of all different ages, backgrounds, and life experiences came together. He taught everyone how to play and create their characters, and now they run campaigns every day with basically no resources. The jail is as bare bones as it gets, so I’m on the outside constantly looking up rules, lore, and mechanics and sending him whatever he needs so he can build campaigns. Somehow I’ve become a long-distance DnD support person, despite having never played DnD in my life. Recently, his federal charges were dropped, and now the other inmates are worried he’s going to leave without teaching them how to run their own games. So now he’s teaching them how to be Dungeon Masters too.
Since he started the group, the amount of frustration and violence between inmates has noticeably gone down.

“Go wait with mommy- daddy might be going back to jail again”. Guy pushed my 5 year old daughter at the fish store and SHE started crying. When he heard me say that he RAN out of the store.

I’ve never been to jail before.

Italy - using a spoon to help you twist spaghetti around a fork

this is a German thing, nobody in Italy does it.

I live in western Canada, where maple syrup is not produced, nor is it something found in every home.

Very few people say "eh" the way they did when I was younger.

In my part of Canada (eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains), snow comes and goes thanks to the warm, moist wind called the chinook, so we don't deal with huge snow drifts all winter. No igloos!

We are still stupidly polite, though. I'll apologize when someone steps on MY foot. 🤷‍♀️.

Meet conflict with curiosity. You can avoid a lot of arguments by asking what someone meant and genuinely listening to understand.

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When I was a kid I automatically thought every argument was an inability to understand each other or reach an agreeable resolution. It totally blew my mind when I realized as a teenager that some people argue to win, no matter how illogical or far outside their interest their position turns out to be.

I don't know when exactly it was "discovered", but VERY recently (like past few devades), it was discovered that infants feel pain. So yeah, they used.to perform surgery on infants without anesthesia. In RECENT times. Like in the 80s and maybe 90s even.

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On a side note, most people think animals don't feel pain or are incapable of any kind of sentience and sapience. I believe all life outside of fungi and plants can feel pain. It'd genuinely shock me of mushrooms and grass could feel pain. But yeah, why people dont realize mice or lizards or bats or turtles can feel pain is beyond me. And... no way to prove this (my handwashing moment), but I believe mammals and maybe "lesser" animals can feel dread and despair and such. Develope depression, get traumatized and developed PTSD, etc. I think mammals are much more human than other humans give them recognition for. I also believe that if an animal looks at his or her food bowl and looks away and walks away, that's it considering whether it should eat for pleasure or for hunger. And thus shows decision making.

Besides, we've proven that crows and ravens (birds) are pretty intelligent.

Everything about Staff Sgt. Reckless sounds like fiction. She was a mongolian race horse who was purchased from a Korean stable boy so that he could buy a prosthetic leg for his sister who had stepped on a land mine. The United States Marine Corps trained her to be a pack horse carrying Recoilless Rifles for the 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. Recoilless Rifles were affectionately known as "Reckless Rifles" due to their backblast, hence her name. She was known to sleep with Marines in their tents on cold nights and would eat nearly anything that she was given, including scrambled eggs, beer, Coca Cola, and approximately $30 worth of poker chips once. She learned supply routes and carried supplies and wounded troops without a handler. During the battle for Outpost Vegas she made 51 supply trips and was critical in defending the area. It's not a stretch to say that she was instrumental in holding the front line and the modern Korean border might look very different if not for her efforts. She was wounded twice in combat which earned her 2 Purple Hearts in addition to a Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal, Presidential unit Citations from South Korea and the United States, and other minor honors. She was essentially smuggled back to Texas, partied at a USMC Birthday Ball, featured in LIFE Magazine and The Saturday Evening Post, and listed as one of the top 100 US war heroes of all time. She gave birth to 4 foals: Fearless, Dauntless, Chesty, and one that died nameless.

On July 26th 2013, one day before the 60th anniversary of the Korean War a statue of Sgt. Reckless was unveiled at the National Museum of the Marine Corps along with a lock of her tail hair at the base of the statue. The statue's plaque includes a quote from Sergeant Harold Wadley, who served in battle alongside Sergeant Reckless: "The spirit of her loneliness and her loyalty, in spite of the danger, was something else to behold. Hurting. Determined. And alone. That's the image I have imprinted in my head and heart forever." In addition, there are 5 other monuments to Sgt. Reckless around the US as well as another at Yeoncheon Gorangpogu History Park near the Outpost Vegas battlefield.

Corporal Wojtek, of the 22nd Artillery Supply Company, 2nd Polish Corps... who was a Syrian Brown Bear. This was during WW2.

Adopted as a cub, he was trained to carry ammo crates, as he could carry much more than a man could. The men liked to wrestle with him, and he was even taught to salute. He like to drink beer, smoke... or eat cigarettes, and drink coffee.

Imagine being a new recruit and your superior officer is a bear.