Firstly, you can't have something that's "very unique" - either it's unique, or it isn't.[1]<p>Secondly, it's not made "unique from any other subway station" - it's made <i>different</i> from any other subway station.<p>Thirdly, I wonder if he really has checked them all.<p>Finally, it's not the case that "EVERYONE trips on it." I counted at least 14 who didn't, and that's in a film specifically intended to show that "everyone" does.<p>========<p>[1] Yes, I know that some claim you can't be "more wrong" because "wrong" can't be compared, and that others claim you can compare "wrong" - "Of course it is; it's a little wrong to say a tomato is a vegetable, it's very wrong to say it's a suspension bridge."[2] Still, I claim that something can't be "very unique".<p>[2] Big Bang theory, Series 2, episode 20.[3]<p>[3] Also from BBT (Pilot, 2007 (and relevant)):<p><pre><code> Sheldon: You want to hear an interesting thing about stairs?
Leonard: Not really.
Sheldon: If the height of a single step is off by as little
as two millimetres, most people will trip.
Leonard: I don’t care. Two millimetres? That doesn’t seem right.
Sheldon: No, it’s true, I did a series of experiments when I was
twelve, my father broke his clavicle.
Leonard: Is that why they sent you to boarding school?
Sheldon: No, that was the result of my work with lasers.</code></pre>
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