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army1987 comments on What false beliefs have you held and why were you wrong? - Less Wrong Discussion

28 Post author: Punoxysm 16 October 2014 05:58PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 19 October 2014 09:01:11AM 4 points [-]

I used to believe that Benzin (the German word for petrol/gasoline, with cognates in many continental European languages including my mother tongue) was named after Karl Benz.

Comment author: Aleksander 23 October 2014 03:26:33AM 0 points [-]

Wow thanks, I believed this one until five minutes ago.