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Sidewalk chalk isn’t made of chalk anymore?
TIL: It’s made of calcium sulfate, i.e. gypsum, the same stuff that goes into drywall, as opposed to calcium carbonate, i.e. rock chalk.
Congratulations you are one of the lucky Ten Thousand! https://xkcd.com/1053/
I guess count me in that 10,000 as well
Wow, so 20,000 people read this?
Lemmy’s more popular than I thought.
Yeah… that’s really not in the 1 in 10k catagory. Not even the 1 in 10 catagory.
i pretty sure those numbers are in reverse, at least if i understand you correctly. Its 1 in 10(lots of ppl know) then 1 in 10(less ppl know) and so on.
Nope. Not reversed. The guy I responded to thinks that almost everyone (9,999 out of 10,000) knows sidewalk chalk isn’t made out of chalk. I’m saying it’s not even as common as 9 out of 10 know that sidewalk chalk isn’t made out of chalk.
In fact, I’d say the odds are more like 1 out of 2, at best. Possibly even that more people would give the wrong answer than the right one.
In that case, i think its the opposite
I would say it’s probably a lot less than ten thousand - I doubt this is something “everybody knows”
Well, it certainly isn’t made of sidewalk.
Unless your sidewalks are made of gypsum.
If there are, they won’t be for very long.
It’s not made of sidewalk anymore either
There was a time when rubber ducks were made from ducks?
I assume they were originally made from natural rubber, but nowadays are primarily made of vinyl and the like.
3 wood…
Golf announcers have been calling ‘fairway woods’ ‘fairway metals’ for a while. But since most of them are largely made of carbon fiber these days, even that is misleading.
Isn’t wood a sort of carbon fiber composite? Can we go back to calling them woods again?
Wood is sort of a composite material, made of cellulose fibers bound with a polymer called lignin.
The 9 iron and 3 wood made me think he was going to craft something in a 3x3 grid. I failed to associate it with golf.
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I have to pay with paper money.
yes, I think I wrote that in the OP? Are you using an app where you’re not seeing that?
You did, I missed it.
I still prefer to buy sponge sponges. They work better than most of the non sponges.
TIL that the word “line” originated from the use of linen cords by builders to make a straight line https://www.etymonline.com/word/line
And the words “lingerie” and “lint” are related to linen as well
Half of them don’t translate to europe/german language.
What do you mean by europe/german language?
Europe (area) or german language.
Rubber duck? 😬
Why the grimace? Rubber ducks definitely aren’t made of rubber these days. They’re plastic.
I prefer my ducks to be made out of water fowl rather than plastic to be honest
I feel like a mirrorless camera would fit fairly well on this list. Not quite the same thing, but it’s named after what it isn’t, rather than what it is.
Anyone can think of other examples? Note that we’re not looking for simple misnomers like pencil lead, the things must have been made of the stuff they’re named after at some point!
- marbles
- compressed air (no doubt somebody has used compressed air for what can dusters are used for nowadays, but selling it in cans has probably never been economically viable)
