Mount Gambier is surrounded by pine forests. There are some eucalypt forests as well. This post on Today I Found Out is about what demarcates the difference between hardwood and softwood. Apparently the Janka Hardness Test is the common scale for determining the hardness of various types of wood. It also reveals (in a qualified …
I didn’t know this, but the those of you who enjoy math and calendars might find it interesting. It’s a pretty random fact, I don’t know how it would come up in conversation except for about every one hundred years or so. Anyway, from such are sermon illustrations made.
Some of us live in fear of pronouncing words incorrectly. Quinoa, anyone? In honour of all those visiting tennis players currently competing in the Australia Open and saying how much they’re enjoying the hospitality (or dreading the heat) in ‘MelBORN’, here’s an edition of Anglophenia that deals with British place names. If you think the …
I’ve always wondered why Mount Gambier has no zebra-striped pedestrian crossings. This infographic from Today I Found Out suggests that their absence is doing us a favour. Turns out people are more likely to be hit by cars at a crossing than by making their way across at other places.
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