What do you know today, that you did not yesterday?

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Oranj 26 Mar 1:01pm, 26 Mar 2024 4,112 posts	0 Oranj How to read a windsock At skydiving and and parachuting centres they have an arrow to show you the (upwind) direction you make your final approach from. This arrow is also duplicated in the landing area (images from Googlemaps tinyurl.com )
K5 Gus 26 Mar 1:12pm, 26 Mar 2024 6,099 posts	0 K5 Gus [ Wiggle and CRC back open for trading today under the Sports Direct umbrella - and they've ditched the unloved green Wiggle re-brand and gone back to the traditional orange ]
Mushroom 26 Mar 3:02pm, 26 Mar 2024 3,076 posts	0 Mushroom Never given it any thought before, but the name cologne, as in fragrance / perfume, comes from the city of that name, with the original 'Eau de Cologne' stemming from early 18th century.
NDWDave 26 Mar 4:27pm, 26 Mar 2024 19,311 posts	0 NDWDave And you can tell the speed based on which segment it bends at?
Oranj 26 Mar 5:08pm, 26 Mar 2024 4,113 posts	0 Oranj And you can tell the speed based on which segment it bends at? Yep. All I know is: if it's standing out out straight it's too windy for parachute landings. [Realised I got my description wrong - the arrow shows the direction of your final approach, into the wind.]
Oranj 27 Mar 4:21pm, 27 Mar 2024 4,117 posts	0 Oranj Bottle Claus (Kipchoge's bottle hand up guy at Berlin Marathon) thefivecoatconsultinggroup.com Is also a RAAM finisher: trackleaders.com
Pothunter 27 Mar 11:36pm, 27 Mar 2024 8,679 posts	0 Pothunter (Bad Boy Running podcast interviewed him in April 2023: https://www.badboyrunningpodcast.com/1614244/12655114-ep-462-kipchoge-s-bottle-man-claus-henning-schulke-aka-bottle-claus)
NordRunner 28 Mar 9:51am, 28 Mar 2024 4,202 posts	0 NordRunner The colour «eau de nil», a dusty greenish blue, is named after the waters if the Nile river. To see it, just visit Claridges: it's the colour of their china.
NDWDave 28 Mar 5:35pm, 28 Mar 2024 19,322 posts	0 NDWDave Open street map has been updated for the Baltimore bridge collision
Jen HB 28 Mar 6:37pm, 28 Mar 2024 2,282 posts	0 Jen HB Good thing the fetch virtual challenge didn't use it...