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murphyj87

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11. Because Americans think they discovered and invented everything
Tue Feb 25, 2014, 10:28 PM
Feb 2014

and Americans take credit for things that were discovered or invented in Britain, Canada, Sweden, an all kinds of other nations.

Americans need to be reminded at every opportunity that the pacemaker, the artificial knee joint, insulin, lung transplants, surgical treatment for drug resistant epilepsy, radiation treatment for cancer, as well as hundreds of other things were begun in Canada, and not the US, and Britain and Sweden particularly, as well as many other nations who actually invented or discovered that Americans take credit for should remind them too.



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