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While English-speakers may find this city's name to be funny, its official name is said to be the world's longest, which does make a hard man humble at one point. Bang Mun Nak: A district in Phichit province, upper central Thailand. "Mun Nak" means "otter poop" in Thai, and the issue about the other word can be found in nearby entries. Bangor
Name Span Length Type Carries Crosses Opened Location State Ref. 1: Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge: 1,298 m (4,260 ft) 4,176 m (13,701 ft) Suspension 2 levels steel truss deck, steel pylons 7+6 lanes 370+1298+370
The smoot / ˈ s m uː t / is a nonstandard, humorous unit of length created as part of an MIT fraternity pledge to Lambda Chi Alpha by Oliver R. Smoot, who in October 1958 lay down repeatedly on the Harvard Bridge between Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, so that his fraternity brothers could use his height to measure the length of the bridge.
205 Funny Names That Are Simply Hilarious. 1. Marsha Mellow 2. Chip Munk 3. Neil Down 4. Paige Turner 5. Anita Bath 6. Art Major 7. Story Teller 8. Al O’Vera 9. Cliff Hanger 10. Clair Annette
Derived from the name of the city and university, as well as the fact that downtown Pittsburgh is in a "hole" due to the hilly topography of the surrounding neighborhoods. Paris of Appalachia [8] Pittsburgh is the largest metropolitan area in the entire Appalachian region. Sixburgh [citation needed]
The oldest wooden bridge in Sweden, from 1737. Lidingöbron, 997 m. There was a 750-metre-long (2,460 ft) bridge there already 1802. Öland bridge, 6,072 m; Öresund Bridge, from Sweden to Denmark. 7,845 m (of which 5,300 m in Sweden. 490 m span) Tjörnbron Bridge, 664 m (366 m span) Uddevalla Bridge, 1,712 m (414 m span)
Morgan expects this year’s winning names to be released by Friday. A PennDOT plow truck heads west while clearing snow on Route 5 in Girard Township on Jan. 16, 2025. Chicago snowplow names unveiled
Fucking, Austria.The village was renamed on 1 January 2021 to "Fugging" [1] Hell, Norway.The hillside sign is visible in the background in the left corner. Place names considered unusual can include those which are also offensive words, inadvertently humorous (especially if mispronounced) or highly charged words, [2] as well as place names of unorthodox spelling and pronunciation, including ...