Interesting! As a seeing person who used to walk the family dog, I can attest to the technique of using your foot as a landmark - it was invaluable in order to not lose track of the pile among similarly-colored fallen leaves while I was getting the bag ready.

For the uninitiated: This is a Swenglish joke, a mistranslation of “It’s not the speed(/fart) that kills, but the impact(/smäll)”

I know this is old, but it is a bit irksome that this post is titled “Fact of the day” when it can’t even keep its facts straight about which country does what.

Those signs aren’t from Sweden. Our traffic agency (who prints the signs) doesn’t use ‘fart’ meaning ‘speed’ - except for ‘gångfartsområde’, ‘walking speed area’, which disappointingly enough doesn’t even have the text on it - but mainly uses ‘hastighet’ meaning ‘velocity’. Other commenters in this thread have posted examples of ‘fart’ in a different meaning being used on Swedish traffic signs.

‘Hastighet’ means velocity.

A brand of protein shakers, with a wire ball in them.

You can see just a hint of it on the far right edge

And OP didn’t post the german one what I could see. I’m disappointed, I would have liked to see a line acknowledging that this as a crosspost/translation.

Peter Stormare

Cutie Pi

Is no-one gonna mention the inconsistent formatting of the signs underneath? Just me?

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This looks genuinely great, thanks for mentioning it. Here’s their website, with free learning resources.

Slightly off-topic, but you might find the latest video-essay from Contrapoints, Conspiracy, helpful.