50 Fun And Informative Charts About Parts Of The World You May Not Have Known Yet

don't forget the inventor of insulin sold the patent for one dollar because he thought free healthcare was important

Wow, I'm North American, and have never seen the other kinds of tally marks until today!!! Neat!

Are there no cross breeds? In Zoos maybe? How do they look? I‘m too curious now. Wish I could make stuff like that my work and be paid for it.

This is quite beautiful

Never realized this! Very cool

they all look so cool!

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Australia: 20 days for Annual leave plus 10 days for personal leave plus 8 national public holidays (or penalty rates) - so minimum 38 paid leave days

North America got cheated!

Oh look NZ - you exist....as part of Australia🤗

Penguin can be found in Gotham City also. Source - DC Comics

Australian - Base: crumbly (biscuit/butter) Cheese: cream cheese ~ Texture/Flavour: - sooth and rich

Sorry, I may be biased to the ones I'm most familiar with, but I always love North American wall sockets for their "expression" (looking like a shocked/surprised face) 😲

I see New Zealand is on the move again.

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One thing I didn't realize until I heard a Kamala Harris stump speech was that the Biden admin finally gave Medicare the ability to negotiate d**g prices. However, that's one domino down in a line of money grubbing healthcare issues.

Mmmmm. Bread.

I can't believe the Democratic Republic of Congo has only half the forest of the US. I hitchhiked for days and weeks and saw nothing but forest in there.

Turkish: Vak is duck, vrak is frog.

No jackalope?

It’s worth noting that most of these countries don’t produce that much waste, lots of it is imported for “recycling”. The US is responsible for a huge amount of this waste even though we aren’t on the chart.

Certainly cannot blame Ukrainians for being unhappy between 2021-2023!

Tsk. No pb&j.

How old is this map? I think Germany reached temperatures over 40 in recent years

the norwegian guy who moves to spain: 👁👄👁

As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives. Every wife had seven sacks, every sack had seven cats, every cat had seven kittens. Kitts, cats, sacks, wives, how many were going to St. Ives?

Internet Explorer wasn't actually popular, it was just forced on us in the workplace.

THEY'RE ALL WALKING AWAY FROM POLAND

Essence?

funny that the state of Victoria in Aus isn't coloured in too

Amsterdam 15.75

A couple of the old colonies held out...

So is red considered light hair ?

The wonderful news is that people are rejecting religion more and more. The percentage of people who believe in magic is going down at a rate of almost 1% per year

I love what we call 'natural' yoghurt in Australia. It is closer to the consistency of Greek yoghurt (which we also eat a lot of here) but doesn't have as much fat. Australian yoghurt is nice, but very sweet. I am pleased that there is at least one brand that does lactose free and Greek yoghurts here too.

Australia: 331

It's even more interesting to compare this map to the countries with the highest use of antidepressants per capita. Scandinavian countries rank high there, too.

It's almost like butter doesn't keep well in hot climates.

Fascinating how our bodies/ civilisation adapted to survive -50 to +50°C but I have difficulties if the temperature suddenly changes 10°C

China really dominates this chart

Thank you, unregulated mining!

TIL China has a HUGE mineral industry

No idea my country made Thorium....

it's cause they have tons of (mostly male) immigrant laborers in qatar and uae

UK Canada and Australia having a little party with Brazil over there

With current housing prices, I think the percentages will go skyhigh in the near future, sadly enough

Not true, surely made by an American as they are so obsessed with drinking age. These are mainly the legal ages to BUY alcohol by yourself, not to drink it. You can legally drink alcohol younger, even in public, as long as it was bought by an adult. Parents sharing wine with their teenagers at a restaurant is very very common and completely legal.

Don't expect to experience a futuristic country when visiting germany though. So much stuff has to be printed on paper or paid cash. I think those numbers are mostly because of replacing factory workers?

Without paying food, taxes, rent and insurances or jow else?

Oh, Iceland has wandered to the coast of France. Welcome, Iceland.

this is the kind of stuff i thought would have been standardized by now.

Captions would be nice. Some of these are impossible to make out visually—and that’s assuming one can recognize the composers by face.

My Dutch kid is 1.84 and just turned 14...