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33 sats \ 1 reply \ @denlillaapan 1 Nov \ on: Fun Fact Friday - Best Fun Fact Gets 10,000 Sats meta
I'm gonna go full wacky (spaghetti on the wall) and send you my full collections of FUNNY NAMES THAT AREN'T WHAT THEY SEEM:
- Holy Roman Empire wasn't holy(?), wasn't Roman, and wasn't much of an empire
- MMT isn't modern, isn’t monetary, and isn’t theory.
- Golden gate bridge isn't golden (but red)
- Oxford commas aren't used in official Uni of Oxford style
- A French press (Coffee) isn’t French; and in French it’s merely called “la prese”
- Ninety Mile Beach in New Zealand is exactly 55 miles long
- A British "hundredweight", (a "long" hundredweight) is a commodity with mass equal to... 112 pounds.
- The pope in Rome doesn't have "Pope" in his title; the Patriarch of Constantinople --who's not a pope -- has "Pope" in his title.
Yeah, fuck knows why I collect these