The Plaice to Know

Episode

74: No Such Thing As A Computer In The Oval Office

2015-08-14 ยท 3 places on the map ยท episode transcript

  1. TabascoOne-offUnited States

    The barrels in which Jack Daniels Tennessee whiskey is aged are reused afterwards to age Tabasco sauce. I think they also sell the barrels over to Scotch companies as well in Scotland.

    mentioned at 00:10:33 ยท See it on the map โ†’

  2. Parliament SquareOne-offUnited Kingdom

    The statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square has a myth that it's electrified so that pigeons don't want to land on it, but I looked it up and found a New Scientist article that says that they thought about it,โ€ฆ

    mentioned at 00:18:25 ยท See it on the map โ†’

  3. BudapestOne-offHungary

    There's a slightly mysterious Peter Falk statue sitting in a street in Budapest. No one's quite sure why it's there. It was built about three years after his death โ€” it just suddenly was there.

    mentioned at 00:19:48 ยท See it on the map โ†’

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