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What's the dumbest thing you thought as an adult that you recently learned was wrong? (lemmy.world)

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I just realized while cooking that a measuring-cup cup (as measured out as 250mL in a glass measuring cup) is the same amount(s) as one of the actual plastic baking measuring cups that go inside each other like Russian dolls lol

I thought they were different somehow (something something imperial metric yadda yadda yaddda)

Your turn to come clean Lemmings!

**EDIT: to clarify, I mean volumetrically for measuring liquids

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[-] PrincessTardigrade@lemmy.world 67 points 9 months ago

Rhode Island isn't really an island. Like, yeah it's named after one of its islands, but people who live in the state are on the continental part. I thought the whole state was an island lmao

[-] Mechanismatic@lemmy.ml 23 points 9 months ago

California also isn't an island, but it's named after a fictional island in a Spanish novel, and was once thought to be an island.

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

I used to think it was named after Calphurnia from Julius Caesar when we read that in class. I literally pronounced her name as "Ka-la-fern-ee-uhh", fuck

[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 18 points 9 months ago

The name comes from cal- meaning hot, and forni- meaning sex, from which we get the English word fornication.

Therefore California means “land of hot sex”

[-] all-knight-party@kbin.run 12 points 9 months ago

I'm about to start parroting this around, and I don't even care if it's true or not

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Shoulda named it Caliphygia ;)

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