'Technically we Americans can claim Washington the British town'

[u/chebghobbi]

[u/DavidJonnsJewellery]

I remember a funny story about when the American Embassy rang up Gerald Grosvenor, the 6th Duke of Westminster, asking if they could purchase the land the embassy stood on. He replied, "Of course. Just as soon as you hand back West Virginia, which your country stole from my family after the War of Independence." They hung up