A Bar Inside a Tree

A Baobab tree in Limpopo, South Africa is so big that it’s been made into a bar! The tree has a 155-foot circumference and is hollow. The bar can seat 15 people comfortably, and once held 54 people (although not comfortably). Baobabs begin to hollow out at about a thousand years of age; this tree is estimated to be 6,000 years old. When owners Doug and Heather van Heerden set up the pub in the late eighties, they found artifacts indicating that Bushmen and Dutch pioneers had been inside, and had possibly lived in the tree. Link -via Arbroath

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Two countries can have towns with the same name, especially countries where the eponymous river runs through both.

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Limpopo is in Mozambique !!!

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Natural gas has no odor. The "smell" of natural gas is added so that it can be smelled. The chemical, methyl mercaptan or methanetiol, occurs naturally in bad breath, feces, things like that (and in small amounts in some natural gasses). In fact, if you've even smelled a strange smell in your urine after eating asparagus, you have smelled this chemical. So, it was chosen as an additive because our olfactory systems are incredibly sensitive to it!

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In a city of about 50,000 residents, assuming the gas company printed 50,000 of these cards, the gas company wasted fifty per cent of these cards and tossed them out. If they were 25 cents apiece, then $6,250 was tossed out. That would pay my gas bill for about six years. Dang.

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