14 Important Things You Can Thank the Dutch For

[ginny_weasley]

The Olympic Flame

Artificial Heart

The Submarine

Gin

Marriage equality

Meat slicer

Thermostat

Figure Skating

The Telescope

Speed Skating

Donuts

Orange coloured carrots

Modern World Atlas

Capitalism

They're also responsible for 50% of me.

[Waffles731]

"Orange coloured carrots"
See here is the thing, there are actually so many vareties of Carrots and the Dutch essentially forced all the others out of the major market.
We shouldn't be thanking them, we should be cursing them for reducing the variety of carrots that are commonly available

[redeyemindtricks]

Just about EVERY DJ who's making electronic music these days is Dutch.
It's actually a running joke with my oldest son, where "DJ's" means Dutch people/things in general. 😂😂

[Cccgala]

Informative Take :) Would you please elaborate on the orange-colored carrots? Hahaha I just find it strange that it made the list because orange is the general color for carrots.

[ginny_weasley]

A long, long time ago corrals were all sorts of different colors which you can still find but orange carrots were cultivated by the Dutch

[ginny_weasley]

*Carrots

[smahala1991]

So they invented capitalism, donuts, gin l, and the thermostat. I do enjoy donuts. But I always thought the Russians invented Gin. Or is that Vodka? Anyways, gives a good insight on who really invented things people enjoy

[ginny_weasley]

I am pretty sure the Russians invented vodka. I don't know when though.

[Raymond_Reddington]

Haha cool. I'm dutch and even I didn't know we invented gin 😂 and I live in a farming town and no one here, except for the farmers of course, wear klompen XD don't even know what you'd call those in English lol

[stepje92]

We know gin as jenever. Kleine stadjes als Schiedam floreerden hier destijds in.

[BlueEyedHipsta]

The Olympic flame is Greek, it's been there since the start of the Olympic games. However, the Olympic torch relay was actually invented by a German man called Carl Diem.

[ginny_weasley]

Yes, it was inspired by the Greek but the idea of lighting a fire that burned continuously didn't happen until the 1928 olympics when Dutch architect Jan Wils designed the tower

[ginny_weasley]

ancientolympics.arts.kuleuven.be/eng/TE019EN.html

[Bluemax]

Thank you, Dutch folks.

I particularly like the donut and capitalism.

[Maxemeister]

Wow thought this was gonna be a take full of nothin but nope the Dutch r badass mayn

They can claim capitalism, holy shit

[DeadBattery]

I will thank God for beautiful Dutch ladies instead.

[Lordcatfish]

Thanks to all le Dutch peeps 😊