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by s1mon 1319 days ago
Ok, a couple of down votes on this. I’m curious why. I was born and have lived almost all of my life in the US. I get tired of provincial web sites assuming that any random person who stumbles upon it will only be from the US, or even more insane, just from the local area. ( e.g. a restaurant site which just has a street address, or a newspaper site which assumes I know which Springfield it’s about)
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The 555 is a common trope in US movies and TV shows[0]. I always thought those are non-assignable in the US (obviously I was wrong), but it's fair to assume this trope to be well known.

If you didn't know that, you're one of today's lucky 10000 :)

[0] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FiveFiveFive

[1] https://xkcd.com/1053/