iamesco comments on New Monthly Thread: Bragging - Less Wrong

30 Post author: Joshua_Blaine 11 August 2013 05:50PM

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Comment author: iamesco 11 August 2013 06:48:28PM 7 points [-]

I learnt that Cologne and Koln are the same city; beat that.

Comment author: Anatoly_Vorobey 12 August 2013 07:03:22AM 12 points [-]

My go-to example in that area is when I learned, at the young impressionable age of 30, that raisins are really dried grapes and not separate other kind of fruit.

Comment author: palladias 13 August 2013 06:50:23PM 3 points [-]

Mitochondria are real was pretty shocking in 9th grade bio. (I'd read A Wind in the Door)

Comment author: Alicorn 13 August 2013 07:32:57PM 6 points [-]

I was really confused when mitochondria were real but farandolae were not.

Comment author: komponisto 12 August 2013 08:37:40AM 2 points [-]

Also, Munich and München (which has always bothered me, because "Munich" looks German enough already).