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  2. Wikipedia:Unusual place names - Wikipedia

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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

  3. List of bridges in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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

  4. Smoot - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. The Ultimate List of 205 Funny Names That Are Simply Hilarious

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    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

  6. Nicknames of Pittsburgh - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. List of bridges - Wikipedia

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    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)

  8. These silly snowplow names are getting attention. Here are ...

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    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

  9. Place names considered unusual - Wikipedia

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    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 ...