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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” 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.



One 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

but it won't be just "tost" in Latin.


There's a reason I put "researching" and "discovered" in quotes ;) That toast fact is exactly as correct as it's supposed to be.


voster clunis tostus est


Whoops!


Since 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


I just learned a whole lot about toast.




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