ExiledInIllinois Posted July 27, 2016 Share Posted July 27, 2016 TIL a theme park in Lithuania recreates life as a USSR citizen. Visitors have their belongings confiscated, wear gas masks, experience interrogation, and must learn the Soviet anthem. Their reward is a shot of vodka. CBF This is great CBF! I am trying to predict where your searches will take you next! I love going off on tangents in Wiki or the dictionary! You are going right up the Baltic coast, what is next The Fins and sisu? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisu "Sisu means that you finish what you start, you don’t quit in the middle of a job, and you don’t whine. "It doesn’t take sisu to go to the North Pole; it takes sisu to stand at the door when the bear is on the other side."" What is it with Google Images recently; half the time when you click thumbnail you see large image briefly then it goes away. Multiple browsers. You can select "View Image" to see it in another window but that misses the point. Maybe it is the orange sunshine acid? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted July 27, 2016 Share Posted July 27, 2016 (edited) Heading back from Lake Superior and The UP of Michigan, up Wisconsin side and down Michigan side... I knew the Niagara Escarpment stretches from New York State, through Southern Ontario, up and around the edge of Georgian Bay (submerged under Lake Huron, creating Georgian Bay), through the "bow tie" of Michigan and down to Green Bay and Door County, Wisconsin... Basically "bowling in" the Middle Lakes of Michigan, Huron, and Erie. What I didn't know is that under the Straits of Mackinac, lies a recently discovered underwater waterfalls, under 100 feet of water in The straits.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackinac_Falls Discovered August 16, 2007. Also... I remember reading somewhere and I find fascinating that when Niagara Falls finally erodes all the way to BFLo and meets the head of Lake Erie as a bunch of rapids... Lake Huron and Michigan will drop an estimated 100-150 feet! Boy, if we could only live a couple of 1,000 years! Edited July 27, 2016 by ExiledInIllinois Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Bills Fan Posted July 28, 2016 Author Share Posted July 28, 2016 TIL In Japan, sleeping on the job is encouraged. It is viewed as exhaustion from working hard. Some people even fake it to look committed to their job. CBF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted July 28, 2016 Share Posted July 28, 2016 TIL In Japan, sleeping on the job is encouraged. It is viewed as exhaustion from working hard. Some people even fake it to look committed to their job. CBF He he... Every lockman on the planet would agree! Those Japanese, they got it going! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Bills Fan Posted July 28, 2016 Author Share Posted July 28, 2016 TIL at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the US men's basketball team beat Canada 19-8 to win the gold medal. The game was held outdoors on a dirt court in the pouring rain. The conditions prevented dribbling, which is why the score was so low CBF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deranged Rhino Posted July 28, 2016 Share Posted July 28, 2016 TIL at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the US men's basketball team beat Canada 19-8 to win the gold medal. The game was held outdoors on a dirt court in the pouring rain. The conditions prevented dribbling, which is why the score was so low CBF The conditions then were still better than the ones in Rio today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gugny Posted July 28, 2016 Share Posted July 28, 2016 The conditions then were still better than the ones in Rio today. Absolutely. I'd rather play basketball in a downpour than swim in human schit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Bills Fan Posted July 28, 2016 Author Share Posted July 28, 2016 TIL that trick-candles are banned in Canada Well I never knew this.... CBF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted July 28, 2016 Share Posted July 28, 2016 TIL that trick-candles are banned in Canada Well I never knew this.... CBF That makes complete sense. Everyone knows Canadians are easily confused. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Bills Fan Posted July 28, 2016 Author Share Posted July 28, 2016 That makes complete sense. Everyone knows Canadians are easily confused. Huh? CBF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
section122 Posted July 28, 2016 Share Posted July 28, 2016 TIL CBF spends a lot of time on Reddit and then cross posts to TBD One of my favorites is that Ohio is the only state that doesn't share a letter with the word mackerel. Strangely enough it is also the only state without an a,n, or s. Which means that it also is the only state that doesn't share a letter with anus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted July 28, 2016 Share Posted July 28, 2016 Which means that it also is the only state that doesn't share a letter with anus. And yet, it has Cleveland. Strange, strange world... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Bills Fan Posted July 29, 2016 Author Share Posted July 29, 2016 TIL in Turin Italy, you must walk your dog 3 times a day or face a fine CBF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 TIL in Turin Italy, you must walk your dog 3 times a day or face a fine CBF HF... WTF! They got dog spotter police watching and counting? My daughter would love that place... So judgemental (chip of her mother's block ;-) ;-) ), helicopter pet owners telling others how to pet own. My wife & daughter would be in their element. We visited an old copper mine and my daughter was not inpressed (to say the very least) taking a tour in 40 degree conditions when it was 80 above ground. To make a long story short, the proprietor of the attraction (1800's copper mine), had this cutest baby pet skunk... Yes a skunk (descented of course)! Well, my daughter thought it was great, except for the part about having to spend its existence w/a loving family that owned an old copper mine! LMAO! I said: "What?" She'd be just the person to pass laws that say: "walk your dog 3x" or "no baby skunks near a mine!!" Next time I am telling her: "move to Italy" Fascism will fit you well. LMAO... The Starbucks generation! ;-) Tis I rant... Carry on... Gr8 stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Bills Fan Posted July 29, 2016 Author Share Posted July 29, 2016 HF... WTF! They got dog spotter police watching and counting? My daughter would love that place... So judgemental (chip of her mother's block ;-) ;-) ), helicopter pet owners telling others how to pet own. My wife & daughter would be in their element. We visited an old copper mine and my daughter was not inpressed (to say the very least) taking a tour in 40 degree conditions when it was 80 above ground. To make a long story short, the proprietor of the attraction (1800's copper mine), had this cutest baby pet skunk... Yes a skunk (descented of course)! Well, my daughter thought it was great, except for the part about having to spend its existence w/a loving family that owned an old copper mine! LMAO! I said: "What?" She'd be just the person to pass laws that say: "walk your dog 3x" or "no baby skunks near a mine!!" Next time I am telling her: "move to Italy" Fascism will fit you well. LMAO... The Starbucks generation! ;-) Tis I rant... Carry on... Gr8 stuff! Thanks! I'm glad you enjoy it! CBF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Bills Fan Posted July 29, 2016 Author Share Posted July 29, 2016 TIL an 82 year old woman in Kansas is regularly harassed by the FBI, police, IRS and others just because she lives in the central point of the US. Her property is automatically noted as the default location for 600 million IP addresses, including many used by online scammers. CBF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 TIL an 82 year old woman in Kansas is regularly harassed by the FBI, police, IRS and others just because she lives in the central point of the US. Her property is automatically noted as the default location for 600 million IP addresses, including many used by online scammers. CBF What constitutes "central point of US?" Continental I would think? So... Can we add just a wee bit more land on one of the coasts so to move that point? LoL... He he... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Bills Fan Posted July 29, 2016 Author Share Posted July 29, 2016 TIL a coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy CBF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted July 30, 2016 Share Posted July 30, 2016 TIL a coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy CBF Uh...yeah? In nuclear plants, the radioactive material is concentrated in solid or liquid form. In coal plants, there's a lot less radioactive material...but it goes spewing out all over the place. And in truth, unless you're actually living in a stack, you'll get more radiation in your basement than you ever will from a coal plant. Hell, you probably get more from bananas (which have enough phosphorous in them that radiation is sometimes measured in banana-equivalent-doses - someone near Three Mile Island in 1979 was exposed to 800 BED's - the radiation equivalent of eating 800 bananas.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unbillievable Posted July 30, 2016 Share Posted July 30, 2016 TIL that I eat too many bananas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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