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Episode 232- Back to school

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from schooladvisor.my:

Fun Facts About Schools Around The World

A primary school in Phu-ma Chang-thang, Tibet, is thought to be the highest school in the world, 200 meters higher than Mount Everest.

The Shishi High School located in Chengdu, China is the world’s oldest school, established in 194 AD.

A school in the Philippines is made entirely of recycled pop bottles.

The largest school in the world in terms of number of students is the City Montessori School in Lucknow, India with 56,000 students.

Have you ever seen a boat school? In Bangladesh, there are no fewer than 100 boat schools!

In a remote area of Colombia, kids have to travel to school on a zip-line.

France has the shortest school year from August to June and also the longest school day, from 8:3 am to 4:30 pm.

Episode 230 – Don’t You Want Some Body to Love?

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Top 10 List – Weird Things Some People Can Do With Their Bodies

from Buzzfeed.com

There are some things special people can do with various parts of their bodies. Here is a list from weird-ish to weirdest. Note at the top of the article says “This post was translated from Portuguese.”

10. Fart with your armpit.

9. Lick your elbow.

8. Raise only one eyebrow.

7. Raise your upper lip like it was caught on a hook.

6. Wiggle your nose without using your hands.

5. Touch your wrist with your thumb on the same arm.

4. Touch the tip of your nose with your tongue.

3. Bend only the top joint of your finger.

2. Turn your eyelids inside out.

And the number one Weird Thing Some People Can Do With Their Body is:…..

Move your ears without touching them.

Episode 229 – The grammar police are here!

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People misuse words all the time. It’s not hard to grammatically mess up — there’s so much to learn when it comes to the English. Don’t sweat it if you’ve gotten some of these phrases wrong. But hey, the first step is recognizing the errors and then (please, please, please)– fixing them.

Episode 225 – Time After Time

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Top 10 List
– 6 Bizarre Timeline Facts to Blow Your Mind
(and things that didn’t make it into the show)

from toptenz.net

A wise man once said that time keeps on slippin’ (slippin’) into the future. On the other hand, he may have had that backwards and time is heading into the past. Or you could believe those who think time is cyclical and the present and the past are the same thing. For practical purposes it probably doesn’t matter. Here are 10 things about timelines that will blow your mind.

6. Cleopatra Lived Closer to the Present Than the Pyramids’ Construction

One of the more remarkable aspects of Cleopatra’s reign is when it occurred in a historical context. Her death took place in 30 BC, so let’s say for the sake of simplicity it was about 2,050 years ago. The pyramids were built by 2490 BC. The Great Pyramid was built around 2580 BC. That means Cleopatra was closer in time to man landing on the moon than she was to the construction of the pyramids in the land she ruled.

5. Less Time Separates Nirvana From Woodstock Than Separates Nirvana From Today

When the band Nirvana formed in 1987, they were only 18 years removed from that epic concert of peace, love and rock n roll known as Woodstock.

4. The Diomede Islands Are Less Than 3 Miles But 21 Hours Apart

If you’re not a geography buff, you may not know about the Diomede Islands. There are two of them, cleverly named Big Diomede and Little Diomede. Only three miles separate the two islands so you can take a boat trip pretty easily from one to the other. But there’s one notable thing in that three-mile stretch that separates them and that’s the International Date Line. So when it’s noon on Big Diomede, it’s 3:00 pm the previous day on Little Diomede. A full 21 hours passes, going back in time, as you travel from Big D to Little D. Or you could go the opposite way and leap into the future by almost a day.

3. The Center of the Earth is 2.5 Years Younger Than the Outside

Gravity and time make strange bedfellows in the sense that gravity causes time to slow down a bit. Because of how this works, according to Einstein, the core of the earth has a stronger gravitational effect than the surface which is further from that gravity well.

The result of Earth’s own gravity wonking up time is that, even though the exterior and interior formed at the same time, the interior is about 2.5 years younger because time flows slower there.

2. Time Flies Slower on the Space Station Than On Earth

If you head up to the space station, you will notice in no way that time flows differently. But in much the same way that time flows differently in the center of the earth, it flows differently out there in orbit around the earth. Because of the space station’s velocity in space, astronauts on board age 0.007 seconds less than people on Earth.

And the number one Bizarre Timeline Facts to Blow Your Mind

1. We Are Closer to The Jetsons Vision of the Future Than When It Aired

The cartoon premiered in 1962, but it was written to take place 100 years in the future. That means the show takes place in 2062. And that means we currently live in a world closer to the fictional Jetsons than the real year it was produced.

Episode 224 – Other People’s Stuff

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Top 10 List

from comedycentral.com

Garage sales are magical places. Sometimes you find a great deal. Sometimes you find an old Sega Dreamcast stuffed with doll hair. That’s why the redditors over at WTFGaragesale are sharing the weirdest, creepiest, most WTF stuff they’ve ever found at a garage sale/thrift store/Facebook Marketplace/whatever. Here are 8 of the weirdest things we found for sale:

8. Terrifying baby statues, various prices

7. Painting of Jesus playing soccer, price unknown

6. Chair made entirely of tennis balls, $200

5. Seashells with googly eyes playing cards, $5

4. Pile of carp, $1

3. Privacy door hanger for newlyweds that inexplicably has CHILDREN on it, 99 cents

2. Wood block with 5,000 coats of paint on it, $3

1. Tinfoil hat for paranoid cats, 59 cents: