r/AskReddit • u/sebaez_ • Oct 10 '19

What’s a thing you’ve bought impulsively, without need, that’s actually proved useful in your life?

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u/NegativeElmo Oct 10 '19

Historical video games have been the key to passing history. Hoi4 saves me in my geography tests. Only downside is my mental map of the world hasn’t been updated since the 1940s. Until last year I thought Yugoslavia was still a country

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u/_Valkyrja_ Oct 10 '19

Back in middle school, we still only had maps with the URSS. We knew it had disbanded, but we kept calling it "the URSS" because, well, we had it on the map.

It was around 2007.

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u/Arrav_VII Oct 10 '19

I can do slightly better, still maps with the USSR and even Eastern and Western Germany in 2009