The Plaice to Know

Episode

No Such Thing As A Rubik's Tube

2023-03-09 Β· 4 places on the map Β· episode transcript

  1. ShanghaiOne-offChina

    Around the Shanghai World Expo in 2010, there was quite a campaign to stop people wearing their pajamas. The government hired sort of 500 members of the public who volunteered to stand at bus stops β€” just if someone in…

    mentioned at 00:23:21 Β· See it on the map β†’

  2. StaffordOne-offUnited Kingdom

    It's sort of... It's over a tributter. It's the Rio Negro, which is a tributary of the Amazon, but it's before it joins the river proper, basically. There are no bridges across the Amazon Amazon. Yeah, like you say,…

    mentioned at 00:33:40 Β· See it on the map β†’

  3. New Jersey Hall of FameOne-offUnited States

    He was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame in 2010. I thought I'd look at some other people who are in New Jersey Hall of Fame. You've got Buzz Aldrin, Frank Sinatra.

    mentioned at 00:47:27 Β· See it on the map β†’

  4. Oregon State HospitalOne-offUnited States

    It was originally called the Oregon State Mental Hospital, but it's since been renamed Oregon State Hospital. It had a really controversial bit, which was they found 5,000 canisters of unclaimed human remains in there —…

    mentioned at 00:51:42 Β· See it on the map β†’

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