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Many internet-goers like to give pedantry a hard time, but I just want to let you know that I love it and all the niche facts it brings.

Def Bulgaria with toasting knowledge like this.

For trebuchets at least, they were only siege weapons, took a long time to both assemble and fire. Though I must concede they were better than melee weapons for knocking down walls.

Giant, geode, gel, george, gerbil. Just sayin’.

Polymer bonded to frying pans to make them non-stick.

In French (and probably many other languages) first person plural is more polite. People in England started defaulting to “you” as it was a safer bet socially, and “thou” fell out of use.

English also used thorn (þ) before for “th” but printing presses didn’t, and substituted “y”, which I suspect contributed.