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Small-Scale Question Sunday for October 13, 2024

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This vaguely reminded me of one of my favorite memes that went something like:

"When a Serb kills an Austrian in Bosnia so the British send you, an Indian, to Singapore to fight the Japanese."

This version is not quite right historically. Japan was on the Allied side in WW1, but didn't do much fighting.

I think it was meant to be a joke on the butterfly effect (I'm pretty weak on history but I vaguely remember lots of causal links between WWI and WWII). It could also just have been someone (and me) mixing up the World Wars.