darklamer

This is just an example of course.

Of course, but it does annoy me when something so specific is mentioned, instead of simply writing "hardwood trees" (or whatever information it was that the reader was supposed to infer from that example).

You’re ~~a man(?)~~ an officer of taste.

Thank you! (No need to complicate things. ;-)

Kira Nerys

size in centimeters

Measuring like that would be even easier in the US, where the answer would always be simply "one foot".

r/AskHistorians

There's no way you're going to get Hickory growing naturally in your garden, unless your garden is in some very specific parts of the world.

There is a certain poetic glimmer in reading the phrase "documents of magnificent verbosity that accomplish precisely nothing" in a document of magnificent verbosity that accomplishes precisely nothing.

Please, it's only necessary to think about it seriously for a single moment to realize that a school where children are taught "that the earth is 6000 years old" obviously doesn't exist.

But the joke here is about Americans, right? (If not, what is the joke that you're trying to make!?)

Come on, I like a good "look at how stupid those Americans are" as much as anyone, but for it to be funny it has to be within the realm of what could possibly be true.

The question was about things taught at school.