What did you learn today TIL

[Clitical Thinking]

Likewise, I'm not a pilot, I have nothing to do with helicopters, I was never in the military, and I wasn't even alive yet in the 1950s, but I'd rather watching something like this than Netflix 

[msslave]

Loved the train video. I've always been a fan of trains. There's a great museum in Duluth, MN. They have a monstrous steam engine used during WW 2, to haul iron ore from the Iron Range mines to the Duluth harbor.
It's a double boiler like two engines were joined together.

We used to have a dinner train in the area too. Great meals were served as the train moved along an old railroad track not in use any more. One time we were on the train with friends and the conductor came by and asked if anyone wanted to go up to the engine. I popped up but no one else came. It was an old 1950s engine. I was surprised there was few gauges or controls.

The engineer gave me his hat and offered to take my picture. I had the biggest grin on my face... like a kid at Christmas.

[ObiDongKenobi]

Loved the train video. I've always been a fan of trains. There's a great museum in Duluth, MN. They have a monstrous steam engine used during WW 2, to haul iron ore from the Iron Range mines to the Duluth harbor.
It's a double boiler like two engines were joined together.

We used to have a dinner train in the area too. Great meals were served as the train moved along an old railroad track not in use any more. One time we were on the train with friends and the conductor came by and asked if anyone wanted to go up to the engine. I popped up but no one else came. It was an old 1950s engine. I was surprised there was few gauges or controls.

The engineer gave me his hat and offered to take my picture. I had the biggest grin on my face... like a kid at Christmas.

At the age of 11 I needed to travel by steam train during my first year at senior school.  That was about the last of the local services to use steam im the UK.

[staci]

1892??

[Clitical Thinking]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retirement_of_steam_locomotives_by_country#Britain

The last steam locomotive built for mainline British Railways was 92220 Evening Star, which was completed in March 1960.[20] The last steam-hauled service trains on the British Railways network ran on 11 August 1968, but the use of steam locomotives in British industry continued into the 1980s.[21] In June 1975, there were still 41 locations where steam was in regular use, and many more where engines were maintained in reserve in case of diesel failures.[22] Gradually, the decline of the ironstone quarries, steel, coal mining and shipbuilding industries – and the plentiful supply of redundant British Rail diesel shunters as replacements – led to the end of steam power for commercial uses.[21][22]

[Pornhubby]

I traveled by diesel locomotive a number of times between Fort Worth Texas and New Orleans Louisiana as a child. This was on the Santa Fe line. Texas and Pacific RR had stopped passenger service by that time. Much later, in high school, I traveled Amtrak a few times to see a girlfriend. She lived in Longview and there was no air service to that part of the state.

[ObiDongKenobi]

1892??

 

[ObiDongKenobi]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retirement_of_steam_locomotives_by_country#Britain

.........The last steam-hauled service trains on the British Railways network ran on 11 August 1968 ......

Interesting, that's about 10 years later than I thought, but the article doesn't differentiate between goods and public transport services.

[Pornhubby]

The storm pummeling large swaths of the United States and Canada is what forecasters call a “bomb cyclone.” While this kind of storm is not exceedingly rare, this one is very strong, with high winds that are bringing heavy snow or rain to many areas.

Storms can form when a mass of low-pressure air meets a high-pressure mass. The air flows from high pressure to low, creating winds. What defines a bomb cyclone is how rapidly the pressure drops in the low-pressure mass — by at least 24 millibars in 24 hours. This quickly increases the pressure difference, or gradient, between the two air masses, making the winds stronger. This process of rapid intensification has a name: bombogenesis.

[Pornhubby]

References to penile “pearling” or “beading” date back to at least the 1400s. With origins tracing back to East Asia, an early form of this tradition, prominent in the Philippines, was researched and described by William Henry Scott. He details a bar being implanted through the head of the penis of Filipino males, with beads and decorations being added as they aged, intended for enhanced sexual pleasure of their partners. This tradition has evolved over time and is now more commonly seen as subdermal penile implants. A subgroup of Filipino sailors as well as Japanese Yakuza members have adopted this tradition. Sailors use this as both a status symbol, separating themselves from other international sailors at port, and to also enhance sexual pleasure of their partners. The Yakuza are believed to have added a pearl for each year a member spent in prison. This practice has penetrated the modern day prison population as well. A large Australian study demonstrated 5.8% of participating prisoners had a subdermal penile implant. Seventy-three percent of these men had the implant placed while in prison. With limited materials available in the prison setting, resourceful inmates turn to toothbrushes, dominos, melted plastic caps and deodorant roller balls to fashion the pearls.

[ObiDongKenobi]

I think that just ruined my day.  Brain bleach please, nurse.

[Pornhubby]

I think that just ruined my day.  Brain bleach please, nurse.

It is scary, the things you learn while surfing on Reddit. 

[Shiela_M]

[ObiDongKenobi]

That in addition to Alaska there is a second part of the USA that you cannot reach by road without going through Canada. Are there others?

[MintJulie]

That in addition to Alaska there is a second part of the USA that you cannot reach by road without going through Canada. Are there others?

And what part of the US are you referring to?

[ObiDongKenobi]

I believe it's called Point Robert(s)

[Pornhubby]

The Northwest Angle, known simply as the Angle by locals, and coextensive with Angle Township, is a pene-exclave of northern Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota. Except for surveying errors, it is the only place in the contiguous United States north of the 49th parallel, which forms the border between the U.S. and Canada from the Northwest Angle westward to the Strait of Georgia (between the U.S. state of Washington and the province of British Columbia). The land area of the Angle is separated from the rest of Minnesota by Lake of the Woods, but shares a land border with Canada.

[ObiDongKenobi]

I believe it's called Point Robert(s)

Point Roberts

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@48.9504879,-122.8749172,10.56z

[ObiDongKenobi]

The Northwest Angle, known simply as the Angle by locals, and coextensive with Angle Township, is a pene-exclave of northern Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota. Except for surveying errors, it is the only place in the contiguous United States north of the 49th parallel, which forms the border between the U.S. and Canada from the Northwest Angle westward to the Strait of Georgia (between the U.S. state of Washington and the province of British Columbia). The land area of the Angle is separated from the rest of Minnesota by Lake of the Woods, but shares a land border with Canada.

Thanks, PH.

[Pornhubby]

US Exclaves:

Because of the terrain, several municipalities in southeast Alaska (the "Panhandle") are inaccessible by road, except via Canada. Specifically, the town of Hyder, Alaska, is accessible only through Stewart, British Columbia, or by floatplane. Moreover, Haines and Skagway are accessible by road only through Canada, although there are car ferries which connect them to other Alaskan places.

Point Roberts, Washington is bounded by British Columbia, the Strait of Georgia, and Boundary Bay.

In Minnesota, Elm Point, two small pieces of land to its west (Buffalo Bay Point), and the Northwest Angle are bounded by the province of Manitoba and Lake of the Woods.

In Vermont, the Alburgh Tongue, as well as Province Point, which is the small end of a peninsula east of Alburgh, are bounded by Quebec and Lake Champlain.