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The world has a lot of different standards for a lot of things, but I have never heard of a place with the default screw thread direction being opposite.

So does each language have a fun mnemonic?

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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 44 points 3 days ago

I have to admit that this is rather old. So old, in fact, that it does not refer to the Third Reich but the Kaiserreich.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

I don’t think anyone thought it was about the third reich

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Probably someone did. Not all English-speakers know about the first two, even though they're implied by "third".

[-] Starb3an@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Yup this was me. I knew it was the third, but it never occurred to me to ask what the other 2 were

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

TBH I knew about the Kaiserreich, but I had to look up the first one myself. It was the Holy Roman Empire. (Which wasn't really much of a reich, but the Nazis weren't noted for their attention to historical accuracy)

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