Episode
339: No Such Thing As A Penguin in a Nightclub
The first time it broke down was in 1910 and it was because the air plant was flooded. There was a huge flood of the River Seine, and the coal-fired plant temporarily had to be turned off, and then the clocks all…
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The Balmoral Clock has always been set three minutes fast. They run three minutes fast all the time and then they put it back for Hogmanay, so they're not ahead of everyone else.
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The tree is called Hyperion, it's a coast redwood in California and it's 116 meters tall, which is sort of significantly higher than the Statue of Liberty. Some hikers came across it and thought that looks like a big…
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There is a fig tree above the Echo Caves in Limpopo which is only about 10 meters above the ground but its roots reach 120 meters underground.
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