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

  • Mechanismatic@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    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.worldOP
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      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
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        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”