If you stare across the ocean from NYC (and most of the northeast coast), the first country along the line you’re viewing is…. well, depending on the direction you’re staring, there can be many including. Morocco, South Africa, and even Brazil and Australia!.
One country that couldn’t be along that path is Portugal, which most people know as being on the same latitude line.
ETA: Have you ever sat on a beach on wondered what’s across the ocean? | by Max Galka | Medium
The link is from the perspective of Montauk, but from Chatham in Massachusetts Portugal is viewable in a straight line (as is Spain and, just about, France). Cool about Australia though 
Well, if I understood correctly, any point is “viewable” as long as the path is a great circle. But you can’t be facing the ocean to see Europe. I’m assuming that great circle would have you facing Canada. This is just based on my looking at the last map in that link.
I was wondering if, from Long Island, to look in Portugal’s direction, your view would be blocked. By Cape Cod, or Nantucket, or Nova Scotia, or, get this, Portugal Cove, Newfoundland.
Sports Illustrated premiered on the 6th anniversary Babe Ruth’s death but evidently makes no mention of Babe.
Not so much a fact as an interesting real world observation I stumbled across. You can scan zebras (AKA ‘Barcode Ponies’) with a barcode scanner and occasionally, it will read as a valid UPC-E barcode.
I went to the zoo today and discovered exactly this with the barcode scanner app on my phone.
Victims of a storage war?
Does the code say, “zebra”?
Maybe they could nickname the zebras; e.g. “Hunts Tomato Sauce”.
Wow! Just tried this, and scanned the hind end of what I thought was a zebra. The readout just said “I’m an okapi, not a bloody zebra, ya wanker!”
If they don’t scan properly, they’re free!!!
Cashier dies inside just a little more…
One can dream, though (Discourse won’t embed the image — something about a missing header).
TIL learned that the conveyor belt at the far end of the grocery cashier station can be controlled by the customer to move their items along, by pressing a button tucked under the end of the cash station. This is particularly useful in these times, when the middle of the cashier station is still blocked off by the anti-COVID plexiglass shields.
Striped fitted sheets are the best. With stripes you can quickly determine which is the long side.
That’s a clever hack. The last couple of set of sheets that I have bought have tags that say “end” or “sides” though.
Some are powered by foot pedals, so that the cashier can keep scanning while the belt is moving.
Assuming you remember which way the stripes run (and that all of sets of striped sheets run the same way (or you can remember which is which)).
Doesn’t it depend on whether the stripes are meant tk be horizontal or vertical? In any case, I have a king bed and, with my favorite soft sheets it’s impossible to tell the correct end without trial and error. I eventually just drew a red X on one side in permanent marker.
I have only encountered stripes that run from head to foot. But I have led a pampered life.