The Plaice to Know

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574: No Such Thing as Pyramids in Johannesburg

2025-03-13 · 4 places on the map · episode transcript

  1. It was a team at Nagasaki University and they filled the eels with the chemical that meant they could show up on an X-ray. Then it was really a bit mean. They just introduced the eels to the dark sleeper fish, which…

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  2. CambridgeshireOne-offUnited Kingdom

    Very sadly, the last eel catcher in Ely retired 10 years ago, because they've had this terrible decline in population, mostly due to humans. There used to be a staple food in Cambridgeshire — a thousand years ago, throw…

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  3. Shenandoah RiverOne-offUnited States

    They basically liked the scanning of Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah River and stuff like that. They like these phrases.

    mentioned at 00:46:01 · See it on the map →

  4. JohannesburgOne-offSouth Africa

    When he was touring South Africa, all these South Africans ran up to him and said, 'Wow, so when were you in Africa?' When he said he wasn't, they said, 'But you described it so perfectly — the way that the pyramids…

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