Groningen
About Groningen
Groningen is the capital city and main municipality of Groningen province in the Netherlands. Dubbed the "capital of the north", Groningen is the largest city as well as the economic and cultural centre of the northern part of the country; as of January 2025, it had 244,807 inhabitants, making it the sixth largest city/municipality in the Netherlands and the second largest outside the Randstad. The Groningen metropolitan area has a population of about half a million inhabitants.
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There was a malaria outbreak in Groningen, and he built a small chlorine factory to create disinfectant for the people. He built early electric light bulbs 50 years before Edison. This chemistry professor in the mid-1830s was just sort of going, yeah, I'll do a bit of this, a bit of that.
from No Such Thing As Oceans Eleven with Puffins, 2023-09-21 at 00:32:25 · read transcript
Other times Groningen came up
It can go for 20 minutes. It's 1835, nearly 200 years ago, and this thing is already electrified. He's very cool because he also, he spoke 13 languages. He built early electric light bulbs 50 years before Edison. He fought a pandemic. There was a malaria outbreak in Groningen, and he built a small chlorine factory to create disinfectant for the people. He built an electric boat.
No Such Thing As Oceans Eleven with Puffins, 2023-09-21 · listen
Cut two, the year 2030. The war against the machines has gone terribly badly wrong. Step up, Dan. The one man survived. and repopulated the earth. One AI that's been built this year, this is very exciting, this is a new development this year, researchers have built an AI sarcasm detector. Oh yeah, sure they have. It was in Holland. It was in Groningen. It was in Holland.
No Such Thing As A Soaring Chinchilla, 2024-06-20 · listen
It's a very small group of people who have had sex inside of an MRI scanner, and the reason it's called the 20-inch high club is because that's the height and space of the hole that you go into. Rightly. That the couple go into. The initial people who first held that study, it was a scientist from the University of Groningen, actually. We've played a game in Groningen, and it was... A lot of Groningen going on there.
417: No Such Thing As A Guide Dog Called Neil, 2022-03-11 · listen
Then the second half, we record a podcast. We always have such a good time and we'd love to see you there. If you are from Europe, if you're from Gothenburg, Stockholm, Oslo, Amsterdam, Groningen, Geneva, Copenhagen or Antwerp, Or indeed, one of a couple of very large cities in Northern Europe that we haven't announced yet. Indeed. Then you can also get tickets and you can get those by going to QI.com slash fish events.
No Such Thing As A Giant War Sausage, 2019-03-15 · listen
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