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Somehow on dating apps my most successful profile line has been “Message me if you want to learn an interesting fact about toast.” This led to me “researching”
by simonbw 6y ago
Somehow on dating apps my most successful profile line has been “Message me if you want to learn an interesting fact about toast.”
This led to me “researching” a lot of facts about toast and getting deeper and deeper into the bit. Long story short I now run toastfacts.com.
I only have about 7 facts on there right now, but I “discovered” some more good facts last night which I plan to add to the site when I get home.
- max0563 6y agoI just learned a whole lot about toast.
- schoen 6y agoOne of these is not quite right: > The word “toast” comes from the Latin word “tost” meaning “toast”. That's a Middle English word. You can trace its etymology further back to Latin https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tostus#Latin https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tostus#Latin but it won't be just "tost" in Latin.
- spappal 6y agoSince toast is discussed on HN: I remember this video [0] nicely explaining some nice engineering of an interesting toaster. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y