The Plaice to Know

Episode

401: No Such Thing As Scandalnavia

2021-11-26 · 4 places on the map · episode transcript

  1. Rottnest IslandOne-offAustralia

    What? Cycads. This, more generally, cycads. Yeah. There was a guy called Villam de Vamley. He was on Rocknest Island, which is near Perth. He and his soldiers etched some of these plants. They said that it violently…

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  2. IpswichOne-offUnited Kingdom

    There is only one street in the whole world called Coprolite, and that's here in Ipswich. It's amazing they haven't named any other streets after fossilised poo.

    mentioned at 00:39:30 · See it on the map →

  3. Coprolite StreetOne-offUnited Kingdom

    There's only one street in the whole world called Coprolite, and that's here in Ipswich. It's amazing they haven't named any other streets after fossilized poo. There was a factory on Coprolite Street established by a…

    mentioned at 00:39:30 · See it on the map →

  4. Birmingham Nature CentreOne-offUnited Kingdom

    In the early 2000s, a red panda won Brummy of the Year. There was a red panda called Babu who escaped from the Birmingham Nature Centre in 2005, and found four days later, but in the interim, it was a big story of…

    mentioned at 00:42:46 · See it on the map →

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