Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 2 days agoShould Canada Join The EU?youtu.beexternal-linkmessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up1127arrow-down16
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minus-squarethanksforallthefishlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-26 hours agoWasn’t there some island you had a friendly dispute over with bottles of spirits being exchanged ? Got resolved a couple of years ago by splitting it down the middle ? Edit here you go, Hans Island, split down the middle in 2022 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky_War
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 hours agoYup. That’s the story I was thinking about, and it lasted decades over the most useless square kilometer of land imaginable. Also, not only did we split it down the middle in the end, we split it down the middle along the nice seam that was visible the whole time.
Wasn’t there some island you had a friendly dispute over with bottles of spirits being exchanged ? Got resolved a couple of years ago by splitting it down the middle ?
Edit here you go, Hans Island, split down the middle in 2022
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky_War
Yup. That’s the story I was thinking about, and it lasted decades over the most useless square kilometer of land imaginable.
Also, not only did we split it down the middle in the end, we split it down the middle along the nice seam that was visible the whole time.