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Aglet. Thanks Phineas and Ferb!

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Don’t forget it

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Terraria for me

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Terraria made me think they were some sort of instrument because of how it looked.

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I kinda gathered that they were part of a footwear because they’re part of the boots upgrade, but yeah, I had to look up the term afterwards

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I’m too old to know what Phineas and Ferb is, but when I was young I used to love knowing obscure words like:

  • The indent between your upper lip and your nose is called the philtrum (more commonly known now because of piercings

  • The recess on the bottom of a wine bottle is called a punt.

  • The infinity symbol (like a sideways 8) is a lemniscate

  • The cap on the pointy end of an umbrella, or any other tubular thing (including a pencil) is called a ferrule

  • The space between your eyebrows is your glabella

Etc. Anyway, aglet was one of those. I was always so happy when I had an opportunity to use one (“Oh, man, my aglet broke!”).

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And the infinity symbol is likely related to the analemma, the shape the sun traces out over the course of a year.

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The cardboard ring around a coffee cup is called a Zarf

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But are you old enough to remember Tom Cruise discussing them in the film Cocktail? (in the cinema on the original release‽ )

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Well, it came out when I was 26, but I don’t think I saw it.

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These are awesome! Thanks

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Another fun one: the # symbol is an octothorpe

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Aglets.

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Aglets, and it’s 100% due to Phineas and Ferb

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A-G-L-E-T

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Don’t forget it!

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Telomeres for your shoestrings

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I like you

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