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TIL that in 1967 a brand of foot powder was elected mayor of a town in Ecuador
Picoaza is a relatively small village near Ecuador’s Pacific coast. It's the site of an archaeological treasure: a settlement dating back before the time of Christopher Columbus. It's also a rather poor area, where clean drinking water, sewer systems, and telephone service are inadequate at best.
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Fun fact: Brazil is the only country in the world named after a tree [details in comments]
When Portugese explorers landed in the area of South America we now call Brazil in the year 1500, they discovered the caesalpinia echinata tree growing there. They noticed that this tree had a similar red-coloured wood as the related Sappanwood (caesalpinia sappan) tree, native to Asia, and that a similarly-useful red dye could be … -
Last night I dreamed that I met Greypo
We were chatting about the MegaLounges etc.; he seemed agitated that I have multiple Reddit accounts (and one of my 'other' ones had recently found its way into the MegaLounge after a comment I'd made, using it). I ended up enumerating my accounts, to him (I've made a couple of throwaways over the years, … -
Found GLG9J392 Team Mee Productions Cache #1
This checkin to GLG9J392 Team Mee Productions Cache #1 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. FTF on my way home from work this evening. The darkness didn't make it any harder to find, once I'd worked out where I was looking. SL, TFTC.
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You know what they call a MegaLounge in France?
A Royale Lounge with Cheese.
Here! Have some cheese. Cheese! CHEESE! CHEESE FOR EVERYBODY!!!
I might not be getting enough sleep.
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Mx
Where organisations that have no reason to discriminate based on gender ask for Dan's title, he usually gives Mx. Or, if that's not an option, something even more unusual...
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The Irregular Verbs
I like the irregular verbs of English, all 180 of them, because of what they tell us about the history of the language and the human minds that have perpetuated it.
The irregulars are defiantly quirky. Thousands of verbs monotonously take the -ed suffix for their past tense forms, but ring mutates to rang, not ringed, … -
Solar Power, part 1
Solar power is awesome. That's why Dan looked at the roof of the house he co-owns with Ruth and JTA and said, "You know what this needs - solar panels."
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Ship to ship
Oglaf
I completely lost it at "Three days later the heterosexual frigate was recommissioned as a bisexual cruiser." -
Posted a note for GC5H8YX Boundary Brook: The Mouth of the Brook
This checkin to GC5H8YX Boundary Brook: The Mouth of the Brook reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. So pleased to see that this - an extension to my favourite series within the Oxford ring road - exists. Looking forward to an expedition to it as soon as I can manage …
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Seeing as you're all visiting my quirky little country, let me show you where I work.
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Found GLG6FQM4 Constellations 9
This checkin to GLG6FQM4 Constellations 9 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. The last stop of presquevu and I's Constellations adventure, as #10 wasn't showing on my GPSr (as it was out of service the last time I synchronised this area of the county) and the eleventh, #12, eluded us. …
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Found GLG6FQ9Z Constellations 8
This checkin to GLG6FQ9Z Constellations 8 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. presquevu was only just starting to look around, but I was right on-the-case and looking in exactly the right spot for this excellent cache. Great spot for a cache of its size! FP awarded. TFTC!
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Found GLG6FQ40 Constellations 4-9
This checkin to GLG6FQ40 Constellations 4-9 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. As presquevu continued our adventure around the Constellations series, we got close to this cache... only to find that we were not only in the wrong field, but on the wrong side of the road! We found ourselves …
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Found GLG6FNFT Constellations 6
This checkin to GLG6FNFT Constellations 6 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Excellent container: one of the best I've seen of its type! The lid for the container had been forced on backwards by a previous finder and way slightly stuck, but we managed to pry it loose (and returned …