Eat Your Oatmeal: Some Things For Friday, September 27th
Happy Friday! What a week.
How To Find Where You Are In Just Three Words (Cool Weird Awesome 109)
The app what3words breaks down all the spaces on earth into 3 meter by 3 meter squares and assigns each of those squares a unique set of three words. Anyone who knows the three words for a square can pinpoint it with GPS - just ask the group of lost hikers in a UK forest who got help in about a minute thanks to the system.
Rhinelander, Wisconsin Is America’s Hodag Headquarters (Cool Weird Awesome 81)
Wisconsin’s most fearsome folk monster has been in Harry Potter and tangled with the Scooby Gang, but the Hodag is beloved in the community of Rhinelander, where it's the high school team mascot and there are many Hodags to find around town.
A Statue Of Da Crusher: South Milwaukee, WI
The city of South Milwaukee is now home to a statue of a professional wrestler, which is pretty awesome. And fitting.
Cuba City, WI – The City of Presidents
In southwest Wisconsin, near the Mississippi River, is "The City of Presidents."