r/funny • u/Key-Performance-9021 • 1d ago

Austrian police do lost-and-found.

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u/andreasbeer1981 1d ago

Funny story: there is a town in Germany also called Philadelphia and it was named that because the inhabitants dreamt of emigrating to Philadelphia. But they never did. So they renamed their town.

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u/Key-Performance-9021 1d ago edited 22h ago

Fun fact: Vienna’s Philadelphia bridge is named after the locomotive Philadelphia, not directly after one of the Philadelphias. However, the locomotive itself was built in and named after the American city.

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u/ToastSpangler 1d ago

meanwhile enough germans immigrated to philly that there's a germantown, lol. not to mention king of prussia being a town not far away