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more on them in a bit a few things are more embarrassing than realizing you don't know the
name of a co-worker or an acquaintance and have been calling them the wrong
thing it's an innocent enough mistake but it makes you feel a little bit silly when
it happens turns out it's a very common mistake people make and it's not just with
names of other humans we learn the wrong names of things all the time
number 10 most gargoyles are actually grotesques though we commonly associate gargles with gothic
architecture they were very common across europe over the past several centuries and actually date
all the way back to greece the acropolis in athens has lion gargoyles from the 4th century bc they
are still going strong even today and if you head to the national cathedral in washington you can
even find a darth vader gargoyle or more properly a grotesque in the modern world we have a bad
habit of calling every grizzly monster carved into the side of a cathedral a gargoyle disney had a
popular cartoon about them back in the day but not a single one of those creatures or the darth
vader we mentioned earlier are actually gargoyles they are grotesques and they're two very distinct
things for a gargoyle to be a gargoyle it needs to have a specific function they're built with
waterspouts through their mouths that help drain rainwater away from the building on the other hand
a grotesque is not a waterspout and it's mostly meant for decoration or if you're suspicious
protective purposes to ward off evil spirits 9. solitaire is actually called klondike solitaire
is a game that nearly everyone knows thanks to microsoft and it was packaged with the earliest
home computers so most people grew up with access to it because microsoft opted to call the game
solid air we're all still calling it that the fact is solitaire is less a particular game than a
particular style of game the game microsoft taught us all was klondike solitaire in the uk it's known
as patience there are literally hundreds of other solitaire games out there basically if
you can play it by yourself it's solitaire that's the only actual rule the first solitaire game on
record dates back to 1746 and at the time it was referring to a game meant for one that was
played with pegs and marbles clearly there are a lot of potential variations but as long as one
solitary person plays it it counts number eight chilean seabass is actually patagonian toothfish
if you watch enough cooking shows on tv you'll see chile and sea bass pop up all the time it's the
go-to fish for fancy dinners and it sounds kind of luxurious well that's actually the point they had
to come up with a sexy name for it because chilean sea bass used to have another name that sounded
kind of awful patagonian toothfish the patagonian part isn't so bad but it doesn't flow like
chilean does it but toothfish sounds really ugly so there's no way around that the name was changed
simply because vendors felt it would sound more appealing to buyers it's all just marketing the
name change dates back to 1977 and it's a deep sea fish that have been barely known before modern
fishing practices because of the fast and loose rules with the fake name when you buy chilean sea
bass you may be getting patagonian toothfish or antarctic toothfish also the practices of
harvesting these fish are very damaging to the environment so you might want to leave them off
the menu anyway number seven in america a penny is a one cent piece see a penny pick it up and
all day long you'll have good luck is a saying you may have heard if you're old and still remember
pennies coins and paper money are slowly fading from the world in favor of electronic commerce but
the penny had a good run the first penny was introduced back in 790 a.d so it's got a heck
of a history in modern times and in particular america arguably the most interesting thing about
the penny is that it doesn't exist the american one cent piece is the proper name of the coin
and penny is more of a colloquial term since as we saw the name has been around for over a thousand
years don't feel weird if you call it a penny yourself nearly everybody does including the u.s
mint of course they do stick to their incorrect terms elsewhere on their website as well
6. fonts are actually called typefaces if you have ever done any design work on a computer even
something as simple as writing an essay for school you have taken at least a few minutes to change
the font of a headline microsoft word offers hundreds of fonts as do programs like photoshop
you can use the star wars font harry potter font stranger things font or just of some
classic and clean ones that look like newspaper headlines or even calligraphy there are endless
fonts also none of them are fonts font refers specifically to the variations within a specific
typeface that means the height or width of the letters it does not refer to the change invisible
design between sets of letters the design that makes star wars different from harry potter
that's the actual typeface most design-minded people already know this but in the world at
large font and typeface are used interchangeably this is because most software just calls typefaces
fonts you almost never see the word typeface anywhere in a design program in the future if
you want to be specific you're changing the font when you make it bold or change the size you're
changing the type face if you switch from arial to times new roman alright we'll get back to today's
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and now back to today's video number five mexico isn't actually called mexico
if you know anything about geography you probably feel confident that you can name a good portion of
the countries in the world though there are 195 of them so don't feel bad if you can't name them all
but if you're not american surely you can name all the countries in north america right there
are only three canada the united states of america and the united mexican states
what contrary to what most people know mexico is not the name of mexico in 1821 mexico gained
independence from spain and in 1824 adopted its official name the united mexican states so why
do people just call it mexico well that's because that name is much older in fact the aztec people
were once called the mexican people before the spanish even thought about crossing the ocean
in the valley of mexico efforts have been made in the past to make the official name mexico but so
far it's still officially called estados unidos mexicados number four the hashtag aka pound sign
is actually an octathorp few symbols have had such a rollercoaster ride of an existence as
what most a generation zed would call the hashtag it's ubiquitous you can find it above the three on
your keyboard and it was once exclusively called the number sign as a number sign it dates back
to the 1850s as a tic-tac-toe board it goes back to 1823 as a symbol in general there are
cave drawings attributed to the neanderthals that depict it it is after all a simple arrangement of
lines so it makes sense that it's been around for a while the official name for the symbol
is not a hashtag or number sign or pound sign or even a sharp as it's used in music because it's
all of those things it kind of makes sense that it has another name and that name is octa-thorpe but
who named it that well that'd be phone workers the symbol had been around for ages with no official
name so they called it an octa-thirp which then morphed to octa thorpe number three the
mad hatter is never actually called that arguably the most popular character in alice's adventures
in wonderland is the mad hatter he was a standout in the story and then became part of pop culture
with his depiction in the disney film and later the live-action version played by johnny depp
there's even a batman villain called the mad hatter his madness just can't be stopped but
it's worth noting that writer lewis carroll never actually called him mad carol called the character
the hatter other characters in the book describe him in unfavorable terms and it's clear that
carol was depicting him in that light but nobody calls him that the term mad as a hatter predates
carol's story and was a reference to an illness suffered by hat makers part of the process of
making hats in the 18th century involved mercury pat makers were unknowingly exposing themselves to
this toxic element and suffering serious physical and mental ailments as a result so while carol's
hatter was clearly mad and likely for this reason no one specifically calls him the mad
hatter number two panini is plural the sandwich is actually called a penino in america if you've
been buying a sandwich that's been pressed in a grill it's a panini you can go to any sandwich
shop and buy one right now you could go to walmart and buy your own panini present make one at home
paninis for everybody one thing worth knowing about panini is that it's not even a grammatically
correct way to use the word panini is italian and it refers to multiple sandwiches a single one of
these sandwiches is called a panini no two would be a panini so when you go to subway and ask for
two paninis you're really off the mark also worthy of note is that panini means small bread roll
so it's any sandwich served on an entire small loaf of bread it doesn't really need to be grilled
which is really the sole qualification needed in north america number one big ben is just the bell
not the clock tower if you're visiting london as a tourist you probably want to check out
all the famous spots like buckingham palace london bridge and of course
big ben turns out that when you visit big ben you're probably not visiting what you
think you are big ben isn't that clock tower that we've been seeing in pictures and films
the iconic houses of parliament clock tower was built back in 1834 at the time it had the very
imaginative name of clock tower then in 2012 they officially renamed it as elizabeth tower
so where does the name big ben come in well that's the bell inside the tower big ben is a 13-ton
bell and its ring is world famous the name of the bell the ben part is actually a subject of debate
because it's been called big ben for so long we're not entirely sure why it has that name
but there are two theories one theory states that the bell was named for sir benjamin hall a man who
oversaw the building's construction in the first place the other theory is that it got its nickname
from popular boxer benjamin quant so i really hope you found this video interesting if you did
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