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Tenerife

Tenerife
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About Tenerife

Tenerife is the largest and most-populous island of the Canary Islands, an autonomous community of Spain. With a land area of 2,034.38 km2 (785.48 mi2) and a population of 972,018 inhabitants as of January 2026, it is the most-populous island in Spain and the entire Macaronesia region. Tenerife is also home to 42.7% of the total population of the archipelago.

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There were some Guanchi mummies, which are ancient people from Tenerife. I didn't know that people from Tenerife got turned into mummies. They were buried in caves and the naturally dry air desiccated them and dried them out.

from No Such Thing As A Dolphin In An Escape Room, 2020-10-16 at 00:03:17 · read transcript

Other times Tenerife came up

  1. His idea was that he would walk along the water, and whenever there was like a big swell of a wave, he would let it bring him up, and then he would kind of ski down the end of the wave. Then just wait for them to. come. You say it's like it's an impossible thing, but someone has done that. There's a guy called Remy Bricker from France. He was indeed bricking it for most of the Britain. I'm sure he was. He went from Tenerife to Trinidad on boat. It's incredible. Boat shoes. This is it 80s? It was 1988. Yeah.

    No Such Thing As A Ninja Wearing Clogs, 2022-09-29 · listen

  2. Good or 85% of the time I think they identify the one that's associated with something good so yeah I don't think animals are being confused by humans dressed in furry suits well then in a different case at a zoo in Tenerife they have a thing they do this in zoos now where they dress up certain members of the team as an animal and get them to try and escape the zoo and the costume bit the costume bit is just to add.

    35: No Such Thing As A Good Sloth Onesie, 2014-11-15 · listen

  3. Stop trying to destroy the fact. It is amazing. It looks insane. I'm going to put a picture up on Twitter. I think you better had the way we've explained it. Why do we not have this same plane taking us to, you know, Tenerife? It crashed almost immediately. It's second ever test flight. It crashed. I'm amazed it didn't crash on its first flight. Just because it's so hard to land on water because it was a seaplane, though, right?

    No Such Thing As A Michelangel-ogram, 2020-03-06 · listen

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