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Cities named “Idiot” exist in Mongolia, Cuba, Venezuela, and Argentina, with a Spanish air force base named “Dumb.” The name choices make sense when translated. Taft, California, was once called Moron, and “idiot” was a valid psychological term. A “moron” is an extra gene in viral reproduction.
There are cities called “Idiot” in Mongolia, Cuba, Venezuela and Argentina. There’s also a dumb air force base in Spain. The choice of names is more understandable when you know the translations: in Spanish, “idiota” means “hill” or “mountain” and in Mongolian it means “river”.
Learn more about “Idiot”:
The city of Taft, California used to be called Moron but had to change its name when the Postmaster General refused to license it because of its name.
The term “idiot” was considered a perfectly valid psychological descriptor, along with the terms “idiot”, “imbecile” and “weak”. On a psychological scale, idiots were considered mentally slightly superior to imbeciles and even more so than idiots.
In viral reproduction, a moron is an extra gene in one part of a bacteriophage.
