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aharryh t1_j6gvwyv wrote
Reply to comment by TheVicSageQuestion in ELI5: How do they come up with names for countries in foreign languages? by bentobam
We got New Zealand because it looked like the Old Zealand
aharryh t1_j2zrw7c wrote
Reply to comment by zestyintestine in Here's what 2023 has in store, as predicted by experts in 1923 by MeatballDom
"the time is coming when there will be no long drudgery and that people will toil not more than four hours a day, owing to the work of electricity,"
If you take the work/job out it, it's pretty much true, compared to 100 years ago, cooking, cleaning, and chores all done manually. Today electricity does all the work, we just load/unload and push things around.
aharryh t1_j6gzzf4 wrote
Reply to comment by BonelessB0nes in ELI5: How do they come up with names for countries in foreign languages? by bentobam
At least it wasn't, IJustfoundland.