In 2016, three stations on Japan’s Sekihoku Main Line closed due to low ridership. The only passengers using those stations were students and the closure coincided with the end of the term.
If every person who played in at least one professional baseball game at the major league level sat in Fenway Park, it would be at 60% capacity.
Fenway is a relatively small stadium too. 20,442 MLB players since 1876. 37,755 seats at Fenway.
TIL that in 2009, over the course of a year, two friends managed to film 7 episodes of a soap opera at IKEA without getting caught.
Granted, each episode was only 5 minutes, but I still think this is funny as hell.
One of them is the daughter of a friend, Whitney Avalon. She has continued building a career in acting since then. I admired the ingenuity of the creators of IKEA Heights. Whitney did have a part in the real soap commonly known as Days.
Of those 20,442 players, the alphabetically first (David Aardsma) and last (Tony Zych) missed being on the same team by only 5 years.
They were both active in 2015, but I don’t think they played against each other. Zych was in the AL and Aardsma in the NL; I don’t see any interleague games between their two teams.
Prior to Aardsma in 2004, the alphabetically first player in MLB history was Henry Aaron (who was also first in career home runs).
This one’s pretty topical, pop culture-wise: Barbie is helping scientists get ready for the nest Moon mission.
That obviously should be “next” not “nest.” I don’t even want to know what a “Moon nest” would entail.
I don’t know what a moon nest is. But I know who I want to feather it with…
A “nest moon” might be a full moon in springtime that owls are notably active in their nest building.
The music for “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” comes from a cantata composed by Felix Mendelssohn to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Gutenberg’s movable type printing press.
OK, that’s cool, but am I the only one puzzled by the role Barbie is actually playing, there? What they needed for the test was a sample of fabric similar to that used in space suits. How does it help to have that sample wrapped around a doll? If anything, I’d think it’d make it a worse test, since the actual spacesuit material would surely be too bulky to make doll clothes out of.
There was a reference to spinning the doll 360 degrees (possibly via the spray bar?), so having a model might have helped with that portion?
Plus, it never hurts to have a hook when announcing your results.
There’s an Intercourse, PA.
Not too far from Blue Ball. Really.
And, then there is Fucking Austria.
There was a place in Austria called Fucking. It’s called Fugging now.
Been there, done that.
I’d read they were not happy with the frequency with which the signs were stolen.
Still, it will always be Fucking Austria.
Fuggers!