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** Ireland is one of the few countries in Europe to have captions on the license plates. This was done because when the current numbering system was introduced, it included a one or two-letter county code, and people complained because these were abbreviations of the ''English'' county names. The solution? Keep them in the number itself, with the Gaelic county name spelled out in full across the top of the plate.
* [[wikipedia:Fucking, Austria|This town]] had been contemplating a name change, at least in part because Anglophone tourists keep stealing the town sign. The residents refused a name change though, and so they decided to just have theft-resistant town signs.
** They also make a [https://web.archive.org/web/20100329153706/http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/german-beer-can-call-itself-fking-hell light beer].
* Chemnitz, Germany was called Karl-Marx-Stadt from 1952 to 1990. No prizes for guessing [[East Germany|what part of Germany it's in]].
** Similar, Stalinstadt, founded in 1950, renamed in 1961 to Eisenhüttenstadt (City of the Ironworks).
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