Things I learned today (Part 1)

Things
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It’s to help blind people put on clothes.

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I wouldn’t have seen that. I rarely visit that back clapping thread.

I’m surprised my two female close relatives weren’t aware of this as they normally know EVERYTHING.

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Informative rating.

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The other side of the world is not actually Australia at all.

https://www.antipodesmap.com/

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Campbell Island is the nearest place to Limerick.

So I googled Campbell island and see we even get a mention on their Wiki

The island is listed with the New Zealand Outlying Islands. The island is an immediate part of New Zealand, but not part of any region or district, but instead Area Outside Territorial Authority , like all other outlying islands, other than the Solander Islands. It is the closest piece of land to the antipodal point of the United Kingdom, and Ireland, meaning that the furthest away city is Limerick, Ireland.

Campbell Island is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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@habanerocat

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Well I can reliably inform you that it works for adult clothes also.

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Waterford is in the ocean off New Zealand.

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There is a place in New Hampshire called Londonderry where they are predominantly Biden voters.

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A new was majorly for the creation of zyklon gas

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Used to drive the road from Boston to Hanover, New Hampshire a fair bit. On the way up you’d pass Derry first, then Londonderry.

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Visited them out of curiosity when I was living in Boston back in the day. Of their place and time levels of interestingness.

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On today FM of all places.

The 538 is 438 reps plus 100 senators. That gives an outside weighting to smaller states in the presidential vote and is an important point in explaining variation in popular vote versus electoral vote.

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Does that mean that smaller states have more reps in the house of representatives? Like giving Kerry a few extra Healy Raes at the expense of some of the myriad of FFers in Cork?

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Some states only have 3 electoral college votes so as every state has two Senators then some states must only have a single Congressman/woman.

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The population of ancient Egypt was about 4 million.

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How do you/they know that?

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Listening to the Other side of history - The Great courses on Audible.

Covering Egypt now.

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That’s a lot of building for a small population. And most of them were layabouts.

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Is that where IT is set? Never knew the town had 6 silent letters