Content tagged with “canada” under “Stuff I Looked Up”

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Canadian Airport Codes
Explanation
June 3, 2023
113

“It has to do with the transition from two-letter to three-letter codes. Originally, airport codes were just two-letters. In Canada, they decided to use the same code as the Morse code for the corresponding Canadian railway station. Eventually, it became important to know if an airport had a weather…”

Northwest Angle
Explanation
August 21, 2024
253

“This is a geographic ‘notch’ of Minnesota that pokes up into Canada. It contains the northernmost point in the contiguous United States. What’s unique about this place is that it mostly consists of the Lake of the Words in the southern portion, which cross the entire span, from east to west. At the…”