The Plaice to Know

Episode

233: No Such Thing As A Sexy Question Mark

2018-09-07 · 5 places on the map · episode transcript

  1. Smithfield MarketOne-offUnited Kingdom

    The Ravens eat raw beef — they get fed raw beef from Smithfield Market.

    mentioned at 00:05:50 · See it on the map →

  2. Tower of LondonShow favouriteUnited Kingdom

    He drained the moat because lots of people were getting cholera, basically, because it was so stagnant. He also closed the Royal Menagerie, which used to be based at the Tower of London. He closed it because people kept…

    mentioned at 00:10:58 · See it on the map →

  3. Greenwich ObservatoryOne-offUnited Kingdom

    That was a genuine problem, wasn't it — when the Royal Astronomer was stationed at the Tower of London while they were waiting for the Greenwich Observatory to be built. This was John Flamsteed, the first Royal…

    mentioned at 00:13:47 · See it on the map →

  4. YukonOne-offCanada

    In southern Yukon, they have had ice melting recently and there's a big patch that's melted and underneath it, they found all this caribou dung that's been sitting there held in the ice.

    mentioned at 00:24:26 · See it on the map →

  5. Saddleworth MoorOne-offUnited Kingdom

    Because it's James Bond, he's British. True, yeah. I really like this fact, OK, because it's sort of a historical thing being revealed by science and it's kind of an exciting crossing of those two academic worlds and…

    mentioned at 00:26:00 · See it on the map →

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