What is something your country doesn't get enough credit for?
What is something your country doesn't get enough credit for?
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Spain: adding sticks to stuff, we invented:
- The mop: A rag with a stick, invented by Manuel Jalón in 1956
- The lolipop: A candy with a stick, invented by Enric Bernat in 1957
- Foosball: Soccer with a stick, invented by Alejandro Campos Ramírez during the civil war (around 1936)
Source, with other 7 inventions (without sticks):
10 Spanish Inventions You Can’t Live Without | by Embassy of Spain USA | SpainInTheUSA
> Foosball
Wow, I played that a lot in Brazil when I was a kid(there it is called futebol de botão), had no idea where it came from haha Unfortunately I don't think kids play it too much these days
Random foosball fun facts:
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It's called "futbolín" (tiny soccer) in Spain.
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There are 2 types (from Spanish Wikipedia):
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The Spanish model, with the field curved downwards towards the center and the metal dolls with open legs. Picture (from here)
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The international model, with plastic or wooden figures with their legs together (table football). Picture (from the previous link)
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If fusbool is "tiny soccer" what's Subbuteo as that's even smaller.
> what's Subbuteo
sub...atomic soccer? :P
Ah ok, I misunderstood, the one I was thinking is this and was invented in Brazil, I didn't knoW that lol.
Futbolín is called Pebolim at least the region I'm from. This one is still famous today
Interesting, I didn't know about that. Video The Brazilian love of button football (YouTube).
Our version of that is "(bottle) cap soccer": CAMPEONATO FÚTBOL CHAPAS 1 OCTUBRE 2016 (YouTube), very similar the player moves the caps directly with their fingers.
Really nice, that's like the OG haha
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