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Amuletta@lemmy.cato
Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•The Highway to Hell (Hwy 666) runs through the town of Redditt, Canada. Department of Transport changed its number due to its antichrist conotations.
1·3 months agoI would think that a town called “Redditt” would be equally problematic.
Amuletta@lemmy.cato
Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•This chili oil is apparently very Calorie dense
6·5 months agoTeaspoon is abbreviated to “tsp”, tablespoon is “tbsp”.
Amuletta@lemmy.cato
Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•Ford Motor Company once made helmets designed for the army.
3·5 months agoThat must have been like wearing an oven after a few hours.
Amuletta@lemmy.cato
Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•This chili oil is apparently very Calorie dense
4·5 months agoFour teaspoons isn’t very much though. Most oils and fats are about 60 calories per teaspoon, which would only be about 240 to 260 for the amount listed on the jar.
Amuletta@lemmy.cato
Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•I switched my phone to Times New Roman
4·5 months agoTo be truly authentic, the time should be in Roman numerals.
Amuletta@lemmy.cato
Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•The craziness of women's clothing sizes
7·5 months agoWhen that size system first started being used, size zero would have been for a newborn infant. Actually, size 0 didn’t even exist then.
Amuletta@lemmy.cato
Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•The craziness of women's clothing sizes
16·5 months agoThe size range of most adult women’s clothes was once referred to as “misses” sizes, as in “young misses”. So a size 12 (before vanity sizing existed) was actually intended to fit an average 12 year old and the size numbers referred to the approximate age of teen that could be usually be expected to wear it. There was no size 0 back then, misses clothing usually went from 12 up to 20, although the range sometimes started at 10. After that, a woman moved into “woman’s” sizing and the next number up was 40.
“Vanity” sizing started to appear in about the mid 80s and every manufacturer had their own idea of what a size 12 was supposed to be. This is when I first noticed that off the rack sizes no longer matched up with sewing pattern sizes.
Here’s an example of a sewing pattern size chart from the 1950s. All the pattern companies used standard sizing, with minor variations.

Amuletta@lemmy.caOPto
Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•My odometer rolled to this just as I pulled into the driveway
2·5 months agoAre you also driving an 11 year old Grand Caravan? (Whatever happened to the Petite Caravan?)
Amuletta@lemmy.cato
Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•The raw (elemental) materials in your body are worth roughly £116,000 ($150,000) - or a lot less if you do the refining yourself
3·6 months agoOne of my molars is capped in gold and there are titanium screws with a matching plate on one ankle, so I figure I could get more.
No in-flight movie? Cheapskate owners couldn’t spring for business class?
Amuletta@lemmy.cato
Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•Budweiser is currently cheaper in Germany than in the United States*
2·6 months agoDoes any German actually want to drink it?
Ducks and runs for cover
Amuletta@lemmy.cato
Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•There was a random fire-juggling unicyclist in a city near me
2·6 months agoWhen I lived in Calgary, I sometimes used to pass a unicycle rider downtown while riding my bike to work. When I moved here, I started riding to work in the first spring and found myself passing a unicycle rider one morning. Then I came out to the bike rack at the end of the day and saw a unicycle chained to it.
“Holy hell! Did he follow me here!?”
Amuletta@lemmy.cato
Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•How Most Coffee Pros Brew Their Morning Pots. The pour-over, requiring a handheld kettle and a funnel dripper with a conical filter that sits on top of the cup to catch the coffee.
1·6 months agoTastes fine to me. Far better than when I do it with a French press.
Amuletta@lemmy.cato
Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•How Most Coffee Pros Brew Their Morning Pots. The pour-over, requiring a handheld kettle and a funnel dripper with a conical filter that sits on top of the cup to catch the coffee.
31·6 months agoMy little 4 cup drip coffee maker does this without me having to hold the filter.
Amuletta@lemmy.cato
Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•There's someone in my coke showing middle fingers to everyone
101·6 months agoOh, that’s me. Sorry, I’m just feeling a bit crabby this morning.
It’s never crawled out of the fridge and come to wake you up for feeding at 5:00 a.m.?
So I no longer have to hire a sourdough sitter and give them a house key?


I hope they didn’t use the one in the photo. An underwire would start hurting after a while.