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What is the source of "the three most useless things in the world are the Great Wall, Pyramids, and the Yamato"?
I checked the Japanese text, which is as follows:
世界の三馬鹿「ピラミッド・万里の長城・戦艦大和」
I can confirm that this is mentioned in many histories of WW2 as a joke which was whispered between Navy staff. One notable ...
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