History ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin / RealLife

* The American political pundit Matthew Yglesias [[InvokedTrope invoked]] the trope in a January 2021 [[https://www.slowboring.com/p/making-policy-for-a-low-trust-world article]] (note: possibly paywalled) in which he specifically references the Ronseal advert to advocate that politicians run on policies that, well, do exactly what they say on the tin. That is, policies should act directly and deliver benefits directly to voters so they know it, rather than acting through weird backchannels in the tax code. (The fact that he chose this phrase, despite being an American pundit who's never seen these advertisements "in the wild", makes one highly suspicious that he has read the trope page.)

* There is a great sandy desert in Australia. Its name escapes me for the moment. [[note]] It's the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deserts_of_Australia Great Australian desert]]. [[/note]]

* The US government uses the term "Unidentified flying object" to refer to flying objects that are not identified, rather than flying saucers and extraterrestrials. That is also a typical picture of a UFO looks blurry. If the images or footage were sharper, it would be easy to identify the object and thus not classify as a UFO.

* Anteaters are mammals that eat ants and are even specialized at doing so.

* The Anteater
* The Woodpecker

%%* The anteater, which eats ants.

* There is a great sandy desert in Australia. Its name escapes me for the moment.

* The US government uses the term "Unidentified flying object" to refer to flying objects that are not identified, rather than flying saucers and extraterrestrials. That is also why pictures of UFOs look blurry. If the images or footage were sharper, it would be easy to identify the object and thus not classify as a UFO.

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inaccessible_Island Inaccessible Island]] (part of the [[UsefulNotes/SaintHelenaAscensionAndTristanDaCunha Tristan da Cunha archipelago]]) is an island in the middle of nowhere (Tristan da Cunha itself is the most remote inhabited location on Earth and has a population of less than 300) that's inaccessible to humans.[[note]]It's not ''totally'' inaccessible, people have been there and 2 Russian brothers lived there for a couple years in the 1870s. It's still pretty difficult though, being that it's in basically the middle of nowhere in rough seas and has a high cliff face on all sides. The island '''is''' inaccessible in the legal sense, as it is a protected nature reserve and permits to travel there are only granted for scientific research.[[/note]]

* The Harlem River Lift Bridge is a vertical lift bridge that carries MTA Metro North trains[[note]]Another NYC commuter service very similar to the UsefulNotes/LongIslandRailroad (and using nearly identical rolling stock), but instead of going east from Penn Station it goes north from Grand Central Terminal[[/note]], over the Harlem River.

* And the Rio Grande (Spanish for "big river") is a big river that flows between the USA and Mexico.

* ''Zeug'' is a general term meaning "device, equipment, machine, tool" and sometimes even "fabric" or "weapon".

* German has a tendency to name certain things as something-"zeug", as "Zeug" means "device, equipment, machine, tool" and sometimes even "fabric" or "weapon". All of these literally translate as simple descriptions of what the word means. For instance...
** "Drums" are "Schlagzeug", literal translation: "hit-device",
** "Airplane" = "Flugzeug"; "Flying machine",
** "Tool", "Tool kit" = "Werkzeug"; "working tool" (both singular and plural).

* [[Wiki/TheOtherWiki The Other Wiki]]'s [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_sauce article on apple sauce]] literally starts as "'''Apple sauce''' or '''applesauce''' is a sauce made of apples". It's not wrong.

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inaccessible_Island Inaccessible Island]] (part of the [[UsefulNotes/SaintHelenaAscensionAndTristanDaCunha Tristan da Cunha archipelago]]) is an island in the middle of nowhere (Tristan da Cunha itself is the most remote inhabited location on Earth and has a population of less than 300) that's inaccessible to humans.