Mildly interesting

[George K]

Weird stuff about Maine (and other states)

https://blog.matthewgove.com/2022/04/29/weird-geography-10-bizarre-and-unusual-facts-about-the-united-states/

• Maine is the closest US State to Africa. Quoddy Head, Maine sits just 3,154 miles from El Beddouzza, Morocco. For comparison, Florida is more than 4,000 miles from its nearest point on the African continent.
• If you take a road trip through the Lower 48, passing through each state only once, you always end in Maine. That’s because Maine is the only state in the continental United States that borders only one other state.
• More French is spoken in Maine than any state in the United States. When French explorers landed in eastern Canada back in the 1600’s, many of them settled in what is present-day Maine. Their descendants are still there today. It doesn’t hurt bordering two French-speaking Canadian provinces, either.
• Maine is the single largest producer of blueberries in the United States.
• Nobody knows how Maine got its name. All they know is that the name first appeared in writing in 1622.
• Despite the mystery behind its name, Maine was part of Massachusetts until 1819.
• Maine is larger than the other 5 New England States combined.
  If you visited one island per day, it would take you more than 9 years to visit every island in Maine
• At 3,478 miles, Maine’s coastline is longer than California’s (3,427 miles)
• Maine is home to the only desert in New England (40 acres outside Freeport). It formed 11,000 years ago, when a glacier deposited large amounts of sand on the site.
• Portland, Oregon is named after Portland, Maine. The Oregon city’s name was decided on a coin toss between Portland and Boston.

[George K]

[jon-nyc]

I moved my land line to VOIP in ~2010. Got rid of it altogether when my MIL died in 2017

[George K]

Does VOIP qualify as a landline?

[jon-nyc]

No it’s no longer using POTS and we could remove all the telephone cable in the house and cancel the service.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

No it’s no longer using POTS

Yeah, I get that, but it's not really wireless (unless you have wireless internet).

I assumed the graph used wireless and "cellular" as the same thing.

[jon-nyc]

(By the way I wonder if the Interesting As Fuck guy would be upset that his work gets downgraded to Mildly Interesting here on TNCR)

[Mik]

Fuck 'im.

[Mik]

Smart bears.

[Mik]

[LuFins Dad]

Watch till the end

[George K]

[LuFins Dad]

@George-K said in Mildly interesting:

@LuFins-Dad reminds me of some of Andy McKee's stuff.

Now, if he recorded it into a looper, he could really be doing something…

[jon-nyc]

Damn. Like the post said. Bro is legit amazing.

[jon-nyc]

I posted his Kashmir a while back.

Link to video

[Mik]

[Mik]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidseideman/2017/09/21/richie-ashburn-once-struck-a-fan-twice-in-the-same-at-bat/

[George K]

This is why it's called "space."

[Mik]

Our insignificance is staggering.

[taiwan_girl]

@LuFins-Dad @Jon @George-K Somewhat similar to a guy named Stanley Jordan

Link to video