{"id":1950,"date":"2010-10-03T08:17:50","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T16:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=1950"},"modified":"2010-10-01T18:15:27","modified_gmt":"2010-10-02T02:15:27","slug":"5-useless-facts-sunday-stop-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=1950","title":{"rendered":"Senseless Sunday: stop the numbers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Adding 10 inches to 6 millimeters equals exactly 26 centimeters (10 in + 6mm = 26cm).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #808000;\"><a title=\"Define: tautonym\" href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/Tautonyms\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Tautonyms <\/em><\/a>is the word for scientific names where the genus and species are the same.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Taxi <\/em>is spelled exactly the same in English, French, German, Swedish, Portuguese, and Dutch.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Mexico uses the Spanish word <em>alto <\/em>on stop signs; Spain uses the word <em>stop<\/em>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Don&#8217;t ask a quantum physicist to define the time length for a <em>jiffy<\/em>.\u00a0 You might get a <a title=\"Jiffy (time) Wikipedia article\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jiffy_%28time%29#Use_in_physics\" target=\"_blank\">long answer<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adding 10 inches to 6 millimeters equals exactly 26 centimeters (10 in + 6mm = 26cm). Tautonyms is the word for scientific names where the genus and species are the same. Taxi is spelled exactly the same in English, French, German, Swedish, Portuguese, and Dutch. Mexico uses the Spanish word alto on stop signs; Spain &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=1950\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Senseless Sunday: stop the numbers!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1168],"tags":[1170,1171,1169,1568],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-useless-facts","tag-mexico","tag-numbers","tag-spain","tag-useless-facts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Senseless Sunday: stop the numbers! - SolidWorks Legion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=1950\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Senseless Sunday: stop the numbers! - SolidWorks Legion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Adding 10 inches to 6 millimeters equals exactly 26 centimeters (10 in + 6mm = 26cm). 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