Canadian Bills Fan Posted September 6, 2019 Author Posted September 6, 2019 TIL that the CIA headquarters has its own Starbucks, but baristas don’t write names on the cups, its receipts say “Store Number 1” instead of “Starbucks,” and its workers need an escort to leave their work posts.
Ridgewaycynic2013 Posted September 7, 2019 Posted September 7, 2019 16 hours ago, Canadian Bills Fan said: TIL that the CIA headquarters has its own Starbucks, but baristas don’t write names on the cups, its receipts say “Store Number 1” instead of “Starbucks,” and its workers need an escort to leave their work posts. Culinary Institute of America is that stringent, are they? ?
/dev/null Posted September 7, 2019 Posted September 7, 2019 17 hours ago, Canadian Bills Fan said: TIL that the CIA headquarters has its own Starbucks, but baristas don’t write names on the cups, its receipts say “Store Number 1” instead of “Starbucks,” and its workers need an escort to leave their work posts. Understand the need for no names on the cups "Store Number 1" seems silly The workers needing an escort is nothing unusual. There are chain store franchises on military facilities that escort their workers to/from the store, and workers are only allowed inside the store or food court
Saxum Posted September 7, 2019 Posted September 7, 2019 1 hour ago, /dev/null said: Understand the need for no names on the cups "Store Number 1" seems silly The workers needing an escort is nothing unusual. There are chain store franchises on military facilities that escort their workers to/from the store, and workers are only allowed inside the store or food court I was at one base where the restaurant employee sneaked out the back way to take a smoke since it was illegal to smoke inside and unfortunately he stepped outside allowed area and MP picked him up. He was suspended without pay for a week including not paid day he worked part of day.
Canadian Bills Fan Posted September 9, 2019 Author Posted September 9, 2019 TIL that London cab drivers must memorize all 25k of London's streets including every business, restaurant, statue, pub, and landmark on them. Their exam has been called the hardest in the world, and studying for it enlarges cabbies' hippocampuses.
Cripple Creek Posted September 9, 2019 Posted September 9, 2019 9 minutes ago, Canadian Bills Fan said: TIL that London cab drivers must memorize all 25k of London's streets including every business, restaurant, statue, pub, and landmark on them. Their exam has been called the hardest in the world, and studying for it enlarges cabbies' hippocampuses. Whoa, my wife would love it if I could enlarge mine without a little blue pill. Thanks CBF!!!
row_33 Posted September 9, 2019 Posted September 9, 2019 (edited) 35 minutes ago, Canadian Bills Fan said: TIL that London cab drivers must memorize all 25k of London's streets including every business, restaurant, statue, pub, and landmark on them. Their exam has been called the hardest in the world, and studying for it enlarges cabbies' hippocampuses. sounds good, would laugh if this was just something made up and posted as fact like someone made up a meeting of Dostoevsky and Dickens in London and got a lot of scholarly mileage out of it before it was shut down as a fabrication Edited September 9, 2019 by row_33
Canadian Bills Fan Posted September 10, 2019 Author Posted September 10, 2019 TIL: There were 4 dogs used in the film “Cujo” and they all had to have their tails tied down by fishing wire to make them appear menacing because they were all wagging their tails the entire time.
Canadian Bills Fan Posted September 16, 2019 Author Posted September 16, 2019 TIL that of the 77 Olympians competing in the golf tournament at the 1904 Summer Olympics, 74 of them represented the USA and 3 of them represented Canada. Canada won the Gold.
row_33 Posted September 16, 2019 Posted September 16, 2019 39 minutes ago, Canadian Bills Fan said: TIL that of the 77 Olympians competing in the golf tournament at the 1904 Summer Olympics, 74 of them represented the USA and 3 of them represented Canada. Canada won the Gold. goes to show
Keukasmallies Posted September 17, 2019 Posted September 17, 2019 On 9/9/2019 at 12:37 PM, Canadian Bills Fan said: TIL that London cab drivers must memorize all 25k of London's streets including every business, restaurant, statue, pub, and landmark on them. Their exam has been called the hardest in the world, and studying for it enlarges cabbies' hippocampuses. Why do they need a bigger zoo? 1
BritBill Posted September 17, 2019 Posted September 17, 2019 On 9/9/2019 at 5:37 PM, Canadian Bills Fan said: TIL that London cab drivers must memorize all 25k of London's streets including every business, restaurant, statue, pub, and landmark on them. Their exam has been called the hardest in the world, and studying for it enlarges cabbies' hippocampuses. It's called The Knowledge.
SlimShady'sSpaceForce Posted September 17, 2019 Posted September 17, 2019 TIL Town in Iceland Paints 3D Zebra Crosswalk To Slow Down Speeding Cars (last year) 1
Greybeard Posted September 17, 2019 Posted September 17, 2019 3 hours ago, SlimShady'sGhost said: TIL Town in Iceland Paints 3D Zebra Crosswalk To Slow Down Speeding Cars (last year) Dam that is cool. 1
Saxum Posted September 17, 2019 Posted September 17, 2019 Article on it: https://www.boredpanda.com/3d-pedestrian-crossing-island/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic And they probably have created a tourist attraction.
Saxum Posted September 17, 2019 Posted September 17, 2019 Iceland 3D 'Zebra' Crossings was inspired by this: Meet the Women Behind India's 3D 'Zebra' Crossings A mother-daughter artist duo has designed a simple but potentially effective solution to a major road safety problem. https://www.citylab.com/solutions/2016/03/meet-the-women-behind-indias-3d-zebra-crossings/475521/ Now the Bills need to implement some 3D Zebras for practice so they can use them to shed backs on WRs.
Canadian Bills Fan Posted September 20, 2019 Author Posted September 20, 2019 TIL a Japanese bomber pilot dropped four bombs on a small Oregon coastal town. The damp atmosphere meant the thermite bombs failed to explode. Years later the citizens of that town invited the pilot to their town. He accepted, and gave them a samurai sword as apology. It's still on display.
Rocket94 Posted September 20, 2019 Posted September 20, 2019 On 9/17/2019 at 12:54 PM, SlimShady'sGhost said: TIL Town in Iceland Paints 3D Zebra Crosswalk To Slow Down Speeding Cars (last year) How cool is that!
Augie Posted September 20, 2019 Posted September 20, 2019 On 9/17/2019 at 5:52 PM, Greybeard said: Dam that is cool. Well, it IS Iceland. ? 2
row_33 Posted September 20, 2019 Posted September 20, 2019 On 9/17/2019 at 1:54 PM, SlimShady'sGhost said: TIL Town in Iceland Paints 3D Zebra Crosswalk To Slow Down Speeding Cars (last year) I wouldn't like something about 2 feet off the ground as i drive into it, on the drive home morons on occasion leave the forks on their forklifts a foot off the ground trying to catch a sleeping driver
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