The thread of learning something new every day
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@canefan ha road's are shite up here, have been for so long, and the Brynderwyns is a constant money pit for road repairs, a bridge from the top heading south would.be costly but ultimately safer and less closures.
Tbf the rain yesterday wasn't that bad, problem is the rain we had for 5 days last week, and the rains we had before Xmas, the ground is waterlogged, so almost no water being absorbed.
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@taniwharugby said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Brynderwyns is a constant money pit for road repairs, a bridge from the top heading south would.be costly but ultimately safer and less closures.
Thankfully they are putting that new two-lane road into Whangarei which will bypass this
Oh no, not in the Auckland region so the northern bit has been canned
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@Machpants holiday highway...#TMLabour
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I think this might be the best fit. Maybe we need a QI thread?
Italy’s most-wanted mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro arrested
Cosa Nostra ‘godfather’ arrested at a private clinic in Palermo after going on run for 30 years
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@Tim paywalled unfortunately.
But is funny. I recall her story (of the plane crash and jungle survival) having been read to me and classmates at school.
Unfortunately I can't remember exactly which class/teacher it was. (School was anywhere from 40-50-ish years ago...)
Remember specifically being grossed out by the maggots. Still am.
Stumbled across the story reasonably recently and did a bit of googling.
Fascinating survival story.
A superficial dive down this recent rabbit hole brought up a new thing I learned today, being that the filmmaker that did the apparently authoritative doco on her also made the super surreal doco 'Grizzly Man'.
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@Tim said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@booboo Did you notice the archive.ph link below?
Err, no ...
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@Bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:
If it is any consolation, maghemite has shown to be beneficial to some plant species and soil enrichment. I recall the Tube air having more of a sulphur smell than anything.
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@booboo said in The thread of learning something new every day:
I thought the worlds tallest geezer was Robert Wadlow ?
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@booboo said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Thanks don't know that. Our population problem would be much less if we still acted like the 'good old days'
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Waimangu Geyser - Wikipedia
