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The world has a lot of different standards for a lot of things, but I have never heard of a place with the default screw thread direction being opposite.

So does each language have a fun mnemonic?

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[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Probably someone did. Not all English-speakers know about the first two, even though they're implied by "third".

[-] Starb3an@lemmy.world 2 points 56 minutes ago

Yup this was me. I knew it was the third, but it never occurred to me to ask what the other 2 were

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 52 minutes ago* (last edited 51 minutes ago)

TBH I knew about the Kaiserreich, but I had to look up the first one myself. It was the Holy Roman Empire. (Which wasn't really much of a reich, but the Nazis weren't noted for their attention to historical accuracy)

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