one thing i find a bit fascinating is that, presumably because of being trained on a lot of news, google translate tends to do certain proper names by giving their actual name and then providing a translation in parentheses

like, i saw a comment on a video in japanese:

NHKのみんなのうたで流すべき曲

(NHK no "minna no uta" de nagasu-beki kyoku)

"minna no uta" is, apparently, a program on japan's public broadcaster, NHK, where they play music, usually for children, and the name literally translates to "everyone's songs"

and the translation google provided is:

Songs that should be played on NHK's Minna no Uta (Everyone's Songs)

i also saw a similar thing when i was tossing german political social media posts into it, where mentions of specific government agencies would be provided first with their proper name in german, and then the translation in english