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A Malaysian academic has lost her post at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) following widespread public backlash over her historical
Ah, that finally explains the mystery of the Quimbaya Jets!
See, Malayo-Polynesians expanded across the Pacific, made contact with Amerindians in Colombia, and apparently traded their fighter jet technology for kūmara (sweet potato, a New World crop that the Polynesians had before the Columbian exchange too). Then those Amerindians time-traveled 1000 years into their past to give the jet plans to their ancestors who, through a hilarious error in metric-ancient unit conversion, made tiny gold models of them instead.
Ah, that finally explains the mystery of the Quimbaya Jets!
See, Malayo-Polynesians expanded across the Pacific, made contact with Amerindians in Colombia, and apparently traded their fighter jet technology for kūmara (sweet potato, a New World crop that the Polynesians had before the Columbian exchange too). Then those Amerindians time-traveled 1000 years into their past to give the jet plans to their ancestors who, through a hilarious error in metric-ancient unit conversion, made tiny gold models of them instead.
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