• Hank@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I actually heard that reasoning as well but after I read into it I came to the conclusion that this is most likely false. Roundly shaped grenades have been around for centuries and the first introduction of a pineapple-shaped grenades was by the Brits in WW1.
    Also a grenade is around three times as heavy as a baseball.
    But it makes sense that Americans were/are especially good at throwing grenades because of baseball.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, grenades and baseballs are the same size for the same reason: It’s about as big a shape as a person can hold and throw far with a lot of accuracy. It was just a happy coincidence that my grandfather was both on a winning Little League team and the Nazis loved pillboxes with tiny holes. He was part of the 14th Armored and could probably land a grenade in a pillbox from a hundred feet away just like throwing someone out at home from left field.

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      1 year ago

      Round grenades=throwable. Stick grenades=throwable and you have to carry a big fuck off stick too.

      Would you rather have more grenades or have your current grenades come with a stick?