Punkie

grand idea to make them out of glass so they can’t be found with metal detectors.

That’s a horror I never knew existed. :'-(

I remember a story a friend of mine from Serbia told me about land mines still being found in the woods. He said they would still go off every once in a while if a deer stood on them, and you find remnants of deer in the bushes and trees. Also, when it got really cold, the ground would shrink and sometimes they’d go off then as well.

American cheese is technically made of cheese, but unlike the jokes, it’s mostly just processed cheese with sodium citrate, a common food additive to make things easier to work with in cooking called an emulsifier. Nile Red covers it extensively in his Nile Blue channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aGNAxN5Z-o

The DC area. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/7-eleven-6-twelve-rivalry https://mocoshow.com/2018/03/25/the-rise-and-fall-of-local-convenience-store-6-twelve-html/

For a while in the 80s and 90s, we had a rival 7-11 chain called 6-12, with similar font and color scheme.