Speaking as an immigrant to a Nordic country, yes, the sport of orienteering is popular here, but it's broader than cross-country running+map-reading. They teach basic map reading in preschool, and high school students must do a map-reading/orienteering challenge of visiting every point on a map. The orienteering clubs even have a non-running version; in our city they set up 100 checkpoints around the city and nearby woods, and we have all summer to find them. Our kids found it fun as well.
I've tried both the GPS and paper version of it, and found that relying on the paper map, while more challenging, gave me a much better sense of place than GPS.

That was also an event in the sitcom Too Close for Comfort episode "A Snip in Time", back in 1982.

"which was initially at 17m to now 903m" should be "increased by 17m to 903m".
17m is rather short for a runway.

How many potatoes do you need to get the equivalent power from one DB-THG device?

Sweden had a similar loophole to the inedible sandwich, from back in the days when men were only allowed a ration of 3L of hard liquor per month (and unmarried women 1L). (Sweden has change a lot since then.)

Quoting "On Swedish Ways" from the 1964: "In restaurants a customer was allowed one glass of schnapps—but only in combination with food. As the waiter brought in the dish, the guest would smile slyly and ask: “Do I have to eat it?” More jokes have been told about the “rubber sandwich” that was carried in and then back to the kitchen, awaiting the next customer’s glassy stare."

That book was written so the Minnesotan descendants of Swedish immigrants would have a better idea of the home country. Remember, this is still a time when you could still hear Swedish spoken in Minnesota, by locals who learned it as their mother tongue. The sitcom "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", which takes place in Minneapolis, even had the character Phyllis Lindstrom speak Swedish, relaying what her husband, Lars, had said.

That was amazing!

The article doesn't point out that if wages+tips do not equal the federal minimum wage then the employer is supposed to increase cash wages to meet the minimum wage. Also, some states and areas do not have a difference between tipped and non-tipped minimum wages.

I disagree with the advice "Regardless of how you got the free food, you should tip on a total that includes the free items". If you don't want the free food (like, they bring out a free dessert because you had to wait two hours), you should not be expected to tip on it.

In 1984 or so, National Geographic's kids magazine World had a complicated puzzle competition involving places around the world. One of the clues was something like "where London is a stone's throw from Paris."

I went to the school library, pulled out the big world atlas, and looked up maps containing both "London" and "Paris." That is how I first learned of Christmas Island (not labeled Kiritimati on that old map). The scale told me they were over mile apart, but I figured it was a metaphorical stone throw, so that's what I submitted as my answer.

I did not win, and as i recall they did not publish the answers, so I'll never know if that answer was right. Still, it meant when I saw the map here on Neatorama I recognized it immediately, along with a memory of my jr. high library reference room. Neat!

I think what the man needed was a separated bike lane, and drivers who don't make illegal turns. The responsibility shouldn't lie solely on the person affected by bad infrastructure and the negligence of others.

I guess Major Major Major is right out then.

Looks like a baby sarlacc to me, but I'm in a galaxy far, far away.