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Bielefeld

Bielefeld
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About Bielefeld

Bielefeld is a city in the Ostwestfalen-Lippe region in the north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With a population of 342,952, it is also the most populous city in the administrative region of Detmold and the 18th largest city in Germany.

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There's that town in Germany called Bielefeld, which is sort of the opposite. It's got a population of 350,000 people, all real. There's a running joke that it doesn't exist. So all Germans know of it as not existing. It's the 18th largest city in Germany.

from 388: No Such Thing As A Danquito, 2021-08-27 at 00:32:36 ยท read transcript

Other times Bielefeld came up

  1. That's why she's so enigmatic and brilliant. So this is the effect that's been known as that for years, and then researchers at a German university, Bielefeld, they actually were studying directional gaze, and they thought, let's do an experiment on the Mona Lisa. They gave people images of the Mona Lisa on a screen and rulers, and they said, can you just map where she's looking with the ruler?

    270: No Such Thing As BIG SHERLOCK HOLMES, 2019-05-24 ยท listen

  2. That's why she's so enigmatic and brilliant. Yeah. This is the effect that's been known as that for years. Then researchers at a German university, Bielefeld, they actually were started. studying directional gaze and they thought, let's do an experiment on the Mona Lisa. They gave people images of the Mona Lisa on a screen and rulers. They said, can you just map where she's looking with the ruler?

    No Such Thing As BIG SHERLOCK HOLMES, 2019-05-24 ยท listen

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