May
07
2010

マメ知識

まめちしき [mame chishiki] – ‘knowledge beans‘ is the Japanese equivalent of the word trivia–quaint little facts about things (マメ = 豆). And no, the fact doesn’t have to be about beans.

Another similar word is 雑学 [zatsugaku] which means basically “miscellaneous education”.

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