Helsinki
About Helsinki
Helsinki is the capital and most populous city in Finland. It is on the shore of the Gulf of Finland and is the seat of southern Finland's Uusimaa region. About 694,000 people live in the municipality, with 1.3 million in the capital region and 1.6 million in the metropolitan area. As the most populous urban area in Finland, it is the country's most significant centre for politics, education, finance, culture, and research. Helsinki is 80 kilometres (50 mi) north of Tallinn, Estonia, 400 kilometres (250 mi) east of Stockholm, Sweden, and 300 kilometres (190 mi) west of Saint Petersburg, Russia.
On the show — 6 mentions total
It's a Finnish film, 240 hours long. IMDb describes its plot line as the ever-slow decay of Helsinki's Stora Enzo Headquarters building — it's how the headquarters are going to decay over the next few thousand years.
from 61: No Such Thing As Jesus's Magic Wand, 2015-05-15 at 00:26:34 · read transcript
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It's a phantom bog. It kind of exists, but it doesn't exist as much as they want it to. At the moment, if you go from, let's say you go from Helsinki all the way down past the Baltic countries and then towards Poland and wherever. If you go on that line, there's a huge sort of boggy area that goes down there.
No Such Thing As Debreadtion, 2026-01-22 · listen
There's many unusual items, including all of these remedies that are now part of the collection that are maintained. by the Holy See. Yeah. There's a PS to this email, by the way, from Anton, who is in Helsinki in Finland, just to add that. P.S., I have actually come to possess the only full-proof method to cure hiccups. As it involves bizarre choreography, schnapps, and singing in Swedish, it's rather difficult to explain in writing.
Little Fish: Bizarre Choreography, Schnapps, and Singing in Swedish, 2025-12-21 · listen
My fact this week is that when the gates at Surman Lena Prison in Finland are locked, it's to keep tourists out, not to keep prisoners in. This is his prison on an island just off Helsinki, just really near Helsinki, and it's an open prison. I was reading an article in the New Statesman, an article written by Helen Lewis, a journalist who went and visited and she wanted to go and check out the prison because it's quite famous.
347: No Such Thing As A Bacon Scented Sleep Mask, 2020-11-13 · listen
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61: No Such Thing As Jesus's Magic Wand put 3 places on the map.
- Kensington High Street · United Kingdom
- Port of London Authority · United Kingdom
Coordinates: 60.1708, 24.9375