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  1. You're paying for the rain

    My mate texted me "surface water drainage" and then about a minute later "its a scam", and that was where this started, not much context and no…

    @robnorris16 minute hole
  2. There is an ISO standard for making a cup of tea.

    ISO wrote the standard for the shipping container (it also wrote one for making a pot of tea)

    @robnorris16 minute hole
  3. Why manhole covers are round

    There is a stupid manhole cover interview question and it annoys me. A circle can't fall through its own hole no matter how you tilt it, a square one…

    @robnorris12 minute hole
  4. Most potatoes consumed in the UK are part of the same plant!

    Look up any article, ask any relative or ai agent, they’ll tell you the way to grow your own potatoes is to plant seed potatoes or make your own seed…

    @jbradshaw1 minute hole
  5. The ice bath is 5,000 years old. Nobody told the podcasters.

    So, I wanted to know where the ice bath actually came from (not the Huberman protocol) the actual thing itself. Because there's a small industry of…

    @robnorris13 minute hole