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45 Fun Geography Facts And Maps That May Teach You Something New About The World
It's crazy to think people once believed the earth was flat. One step too far and you'd be sent tumbling into the depths of the abyss of who knows what or where. Thanks to the explorers who came before us and those who put their all into studying geography, we know a lot more about the world and its workings.
Geography isn't just about maps, countries and capitals. It's a fascinating melting pot of facts about the planet, the hidden connections between landscapes, climates, cultures and more. And because it's ever-changing, there's always something new to learn. A lot of which isn't found between the covers of a textbook.
There's an Instagram account that shares really cool and interesting maps and facts about the earth. Geo Facts is a wall of info for anyone from the die-hard traveler to the class geek to the average Joe or Jane who just wants to brush up on their trivia ahead of the next pub quiz.
Bored Panda has put together a list of the best posts from the page for you to scroll through while you marvel at the sunrise, sunset and changing tides. Let us know your favorites by upvoting them.
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Christophe Beunens 4 months ago
How do you measure peaceful? Germany is considered peacefuller as Spain and France
Cezary Karabela 4 months ago
out of 13 countries on first map only 6 are present on second, it seems to me that theres not much correlation between religion and peacefullness
Parmeisan 4 months ago
You're not wrong, but with nearly 200 countries in the world it's correlated more strongly than I would have expected.
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Bob Jones 4 months ago
Religion has caused more conflict and unhappiness in the world than anything else.
Mary Sutherland 4 months ago
It is a form of tribalism, which seems to be a built in human instinct.
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Jrog 4 months ago
These are very old data. Come from the Global Peace Index 2015. From the full report, they justify it mostly with the involvement in the Afghanistan conflict, higher defense budget and number of violent crimes in the country. I find the methodology quite lacking in both clarity, precision and scientific meaning, but that's just me. https://www.economicsandpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Global-Peace-Index-Report-2015_0.pdf
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Geoffrey Scott 4 months ago
Ironic, ain't it? The (US) 1st amendment against establishing a religion was by far the smartest part of the Constitution. The founder's weren't dopes, they knew throughout history most wars began by arguing who's God, or worship style, is 'better'.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 4 months ago
Well, we haven’t really kept to the intent of the First Amendment. Right-wingers here are trying to start a Christian theocracy.
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Tom Brincefield 4 months ago
The US isn't marked as being non-religious or peaceful. What map are you looking at?
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Geography literally translates into writing about the earth. Google's dictionary defines it as "the study of the physical features of the earth and its atmosphere, and of human activity as it affects and is affected by these, including the distribution of populations and resources and political and economic activities."
Even if you found geography class boring at school, it's likely you're intrigued by some of the images on this list. Many aren't found between the covers of a textbook.
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Spidercat 4 months ago
That's around 7 billion more than nature intended...up to around 1900 the world's population was a steady 1 billion with a natural birth and death rate maintaining the status quo. As we have improved medicine and introduced antibiotics we have sidestepped natural selection and increased numbers beyond what is sustainable for the planet. We no longer have the checks and balances evolution put in place. That combined with the Abrahamic philosophy that 'All life is sacred' has fücked us royally.
Jeff Hunt 4 months ago
🎶Every s***m is sacred. Every s***m is great. If you go and waste it, God gets quite irate.🎶
Mary Sutherland 4 months ago
I think God intended almost all s***m to be wasted.
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Lowrider 56 4 months ago
Many countries now do not have enough births to make up for the number of people passing away.
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L.V 4 months ago
I'm with the Spanish and British here. Take a nap and make tea. Problems might still be there, but I'll face them well rested and with a cuppa.
Mary Hapenny 4 months ago
Irelands the same. Tea for any crisis not Guinness
Load More Replies... SCP 4666 4 months ago
In order: Solve the problem, bomb the problem, arrest the problem, censor the problem, drink tea with problem, drink guiness with the problem, hold siesta with the problem, eat pasta with the problem, vote to solve the problem, create the problem, revolt to get more problems, emigrate from the problem
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 4 months ago
I saw a real-life cop show once where traffic cops had to tell a woman her daughter had been killed in a car crash. After delivering the news, the first thing the woman said was "I'd better put the kettle on".
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Rick Murray 4 months ago
As a Brit, I fully agree. Tea helps you think, takes your mind off the matter at hand, and once you understand it's not the end of the world, a solution can be devised. Unless it is the literal end of the world, in which case may I suggest using *two* teabags?
Huddo's sister 4 months ago
I just had day surgery and once I finally got home, I made a cuppa with two teabags and felt 100x better
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Mimi M 4 months ago (edited)
Someone please list the flags top to bottom (I know some, but not all) - thank you. And yes, this is funny, which is why I want to get all the references...
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 4 months ago
Germany, USA, Russia, China, UK, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, France, Romania.
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TheStormIRide 4 months ago
well, for switzerland i'd also add a demonstration as it seems to be their pastime activity. During summer you can have up to 3-4 in Zurich per week.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 4 months ago
Why is sleeping in bed leading to “problem”? It seems to me that when I’m asleep, I never get into trouble. My theory is that if more people spent more time sleeping, there would be LESS trouble in the world.
Apatheist Account2 4 months ago
Not so much leading to it as not dealing with it. The problem doesn't go away.
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Mihaela Dorobantu 4 months ago
I'm Romanian so I can tell that's pretty accurate but only for about 30% of the population 😁
There was a dip in the number of people choosing to study geography at university just over a decade ago. But the subject is undergoing somewhat of a renaissance.
According to discover-the-world.com, in recent years there's been been a surge in the number of GCSE and A Level students studying geography, with over 100,000 more entries in the last 10 years alongside an increase in students going on to complete a geography degree.
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SCamp 4 months ago
US seems pretty Russia friendly these days if the two knuckleheads nominally at the top are anything to go by
Tess Butler 2 months ago
I filter my water for flouride in canada. so its not really true that water is drinkable because it has toxins in it but people have to drink it anyway.
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Michael None 4 months ago
As long as you aren't invading their country they are happy to drink whatever with you.
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Auntriarch 4 months ago
If you live up to your name, you will need a bucket.
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Kevin Ber 4 months ago
There is a major issue with this diagram.. every country above Greece is full of hard drinking people, imbibing on high alcohol content drinks that are not vodka. And the Turkish drink more beer and Raka then they do wine. In fact, it's very difficult to find wineries in Turkey.
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"Geography is the only subject to provide a broad view of the world and how it functions," notes the site. "This is important because it allows us to build a deeper understanding of the world we live in, the natural environment and human landscapes and all the connections between them."
In an age where climate change is wreaking havoc on earth and its inhabitants, this understanding is critical.
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Robert T 4 months ago
Remember when the Mongols ruled China.... never underestimate Mongolia! ;-)
Strahd Ivarius 4 months ago (edited)
And they were also ruling over what became later, far later, Russia
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Imagine sharing a border with Russian and China but still being bad@$$ enough to keep your country independent of either
Michael None 4 months ago (edited)
This why Mongolians aren't out looking for oil and natural resources in their country. Also I'm pretty sure the acronym "NATO" is illegal there.
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Jrog 4 months ago
Greece had settled the Peninsula five centuries before, and by the time was undergoing a wave of second colonization with the foundation of major city centers, some still existing. They had detailed maps of the coastline (such as the Soleto Map)
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Jrog 4 months ago (edited)
Must be noted that the reason Quatar and Kuwait have such obesity rate is that their domestic market is dominated by US food companies, with a strong prevalence of fast food and highly processed food, with advertising that made hyperconsumption of fast food and sugared beverages predominant in the young, urban more culturate strata of the population. Concauses are limited physical activity from environmental reasons and dominant car culture.
Jrog 4 months ago (edited)
But american companies are the major cause for #1 and #2. Specifically, McDonald, Burger King and especially KFC have been pointed as the ones having the worst influence in the problem, and Coca Cola/Pepsi being the major source of sugar consumed in the country. A study (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10101309/?utm_source=chatgpt.com) highlighted how in Riyadh 87% of the subjects consumed fast food at least once a week, and 45% consumed it daily. Direct quote: "For many adults, continuously attending fast-food outlets has evolved into a sociability act and a lifestyle choice."
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Another benefit of studying geography is that you'll become better at problem solving. Students are just taught about issues, but are provide with opportunities to consider the solutions as well.
"For example, if students are studying coastal floods, they will evaluate data about the flood risks before assessing potential solutions," explains discover-the-world.com. "This process forces them to weigh up different options before making an informed decision."
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CD King 4 months ago
Interesting. It is the poorer end of Italy and the one attacked the most by invaders back in the day.
Agnese Perri 4 months ago
even more interesting to understand that the once richest south of Italy was doomed to be left with nothing by the Americans who needed the cheap labour to emigrate there to find work!!!!!!!!
Load More Replies... Michael None 4 months ago
My grandma was from the reddest area on Sicily. Her father and his brother unalived a man and fled the country when she was 2. They were illegal immigrants to the U.S.
Pandemonium 4 months ago
Strongly correlates to local popularity of white sauce (flour-based) in the north vs red sauce (tomato-based) in the south. Correlation is causation, clearly.
LizzieBoredom 4 months ago
I'd like to see a map of restaurants still playing 'The Godfather' theme.
Jude Corrigan 4 months ago
Most of the red areas are near water. Great for smuggling. Did they start from pirates?
Slapdash1 4 months ago
Safe to say that after three or four generations in the USA the American mobsters as about as Italian as the Pope.
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L.V 4 months ago
Of course Finland is the most metal 😆. Disappointed that neither France nor Germany have Baker at the top.
Tom Brincefield 4 months ago
Pretty sure Sea Warrior is more metal than skinning the reindeer you killed.
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Auntriarch 4 months ago
I'm disappointed that Switzerland doesn't have Sea Warrior
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John Mishasek 4 months ago (edited)
Misiaszek in Poland is near top according to actual Polish immigrants to US
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Stardust she/her 4 months ago
Every year in history and geography classes in India, you’ll hear teachers endlessly praising the Himalayas because they really did keep the Mongols out as much as possible
John Dilligaf 4 months ago
makes sense. Why go over those mountains when you have (relatively) flat open terrain in every other direction?
Similarly, studying geography helps you hone your critical thinking skills.
"The wide range of topics studied in geography (and the complex interaction between them) helps develop critical thinking because students will analyse a variety of different viewpoints," explains the site. "This is an important life skill because it encourages students to look at different perspectives and challenge data and evidence."
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Janet Graham 4 months ago
For half of the population. The other half lives in the harsh desert.
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Tom Brincefield 4 months ago
90% of the Canadian population lives within 150 miles of the US border. And it's the second largest nation on earth. That leaves a lot of empty space.
Load More Replies... Uncle Schmickle 4 months ago
I'll stay in Oz thanks, but our two largest cities are already over populated. Sydney & Melbourne. About 5 million in each.
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arthbach 4 months ago
No swimming required. Take the Pyongyang-Moscow passenger train, and then transfer to the Mosco to Helsinki train.
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Jan Rosier 4 months ago
Makes perfect sense to divide Belgium into two parts. Funny how that also more or less follows the 'border' between the Dutch speaking and the French speaking part...
Daniela Lavanza 4 months ago
Monaco in red? It should be as green possible. Ok, maybe it's too small but this would be fun.
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David 4 months ago
subways, aka, underground rail. Many cities have above ground transit, incuding trains. Many areas dont have underground bc of a variety of reasons
Kira Okah 4 months ago
As an example of one of those reasons: if the London Underground extended as long south of the river as north, it would reach Strood in north Kent, but it's not actually possible to build the tube that far, because Kent's subsoil construction is chalk and sand whereas London is clay, it's too fragile to uphold the tunnel construction without significant structure support.
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Michael Largey 4 months ago
"Wadda yoose guys mean? I don't live in any of those places, but we got a Subway practically on every other street corner!"
Johnnynatfan 4 months ago
A global embarrassment? That just stupid. And this map is misleading. There is WAY more public transportation in the US than this. Yes compared to other places like Europe its lacking but its not even remotely represented accurately in this map.
Graham_Illegal 4 months ago
The global embarrassment is that dozens of countries maintain far superior public transport with just a fraction of the US’s GDP per capita, while Americans keep looking for excuses or pretending it’s not even a big deal.
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Scarlett O'Hara's Ghost 4 months ago
Have you seen the size of the US? We're lucky w have the public transit we do have and it's nearly useless because most people have to drive at least 30 minutes to work everyday. That's a 2 hour bus ride. Public transit works great in countries where many people can walk to work and most people work within 10 miles of home. Case in point, New York City. Most people who live in the city don't have cars because they work in the city and because of that public transport makes sense. So it's not like we won't or we don't want to or we don't know how. We can't.
Graham_Illegal 4 months ago
That’s an old and false excuse. Modern, well-designed public transport is faster than driving in both urban and rural areas. Also, take a look at the high-speed rail network in this “tiny” country called China, and then tell me again that it’s due to the size of the country. I honestly don’t understand why so many Americans would rather hold on to excuses instead of advocating for real change. It’s getting really embarrassing, dude.
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DeoManus Argentem 4 months ago
Yeah, it actually does. Not very extensive at all though, it's only from MIA (airport) to downtown. Maybe way different now, I haven't been down there in a very long time (I live and grew up about an hour north).
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ChakatBlackstar 4 months ago
What does a sandwich shop have to do with transit? Also, pretty sure they're more common than this.
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T'Mar of Vulcan 4 months ago (edited)
My ancestry (have never bothered with DNA) literally is the history of colonization in South Africa: Dutch, German, Belgian, French, English, and then 10 other European countries, India (she was sent to the Cape as a slave after killing her would-be rapist in self-defense) and... Angola. I am the walking embodiment of the colonial powers of the 17th - 19th centuries. I bet they would be SO disappointed that my heart is African no matter where my DNA came from. Good.
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Jrog 4 months ago (edited)
Except, NOT. Italy has a whole lot of different influences, with Greek being a minority. Greeks and Italians share a common ancestor (Anatolian neolithic populations), but Italy also underwent indoeuropean colonization (most northern italic tribes likely originated from the Uralic Yamnaya), with the Etruscan and Romans likely originating in Central Europe as part of the Protovillanovian. The gene pool was greatly diluted in the high middle ages by a massive influx of German tribes (Lombards, Goths, Vandals). It was further diluted by the Norman, Arab and Spanish conquest, as well from massive Levantine migration in the lower middle ages. While a southern italian may have up to 30-40% of DNA traceable to Neolithic Anatolians (60% on average in Greece), a northern italian would have less than 10%, and Sardinians would have usually
Huddo's sister 4 months ago
This reminds me of an incident that just happened in Australia. Politician Bob Katter, who is anti immigration, was asked how he reconciles that position, given his Lebanese heritage (grandfather comes from Lebanon). He completely lost it, yelling at the journalist who asked, telling him that he's not allowed to ask that and it's being racist!
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L.V 4 months ago
Grew up where it was the norm, hated it for the most part, especially when it was your weird relatives.
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Rika 4 months ago
Big issue in France because it depends on regions. It can get very awkward when you and the other person go for a different number and end up accidentally kissing on the lips.
Load More Replies... John Mishasek 4 months ago
As opposed to the anatomy being kissed at US cabinet meetings in Washington DC now
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Gionanna 4 months ago
Argentina welcomed lot of Italian migrants in the past. Brazil welcomed people from the whole world... And outside of out world apparently
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Christophe Beunens 4 months ago
France has a lot of overseas territories, and French Guina borders with Brazil
OneHappyPuppy 4 months ago
Yes! Google AI: France's longest border is with Brazil, due to its overseas department of French Guiana in South America.
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Chihuahua Mama 4 months ago (edited)
Human-caused climate change: "I'm not seeing as much red as I would like" Edit: spelling
BarfyCat 4 months ago
So basically only Scandinavia is habitable from a climate and political perspective.
Chihuahua Mama 4 months ago
We have bad heat waves basically every summer in various parts of the country
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Sian E 4 months ago
New Zealand would like to know why it's been moved into the Southern Indian Ocean?
General Anaesthesia 4 months ago
China has Douyin, also owned by ByteDance, with their own government influence. A total ban would improve the world.
Rick Murray 4 months ago
And so it should be banned on government devices - do you d@mned job and stop staring at animated memes...
Rika 4 months ago
I agree! My husband doesn't even work for the government, but his professional phone is monitored and he has been warned he'd be in big trouble if he used it for apps like TikTok or games because the phone is meant to help with his *job* that he's paid for, it's not for entertainment.
Load More Replies... Sapna Sarfare 4 months ago
Thank god Indian govt banned it.. the sad part is the tiktok dodos moved to instagram and youtube
Count Stefan Amaranth 4 months ago
Erm…we have TikTok in China. It’s called Douyin, and it’s almost exactly the same.
Tom Brincefield 4 months ago
So you have a different app, that is exactly the same, but doesn't connect to TikTok and isn't named TikTok. So it isn't TikTok.
Load More Replies... John Mishasek 4 months ago
That's just rude to do that to New Zealand. Or person creating map is product of US educational disaster.
Erik Biesemeier 4 months ago
It's actually banned in the US since January 19 2025, but Trump has repeatedly ordered agencies not to enforce the law banning it.
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Judes 4 months ago
I just tested it and got "strict" for North Korea. But I Google results can depend on geography and previous searches, so your results may differ.
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TotallyNOTAFox 4 months ago (edited)
Or very lax enviromental laws and/or their enforcement
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Nina 4 months ago
Today I learned the geographical Balkan differs 'slightly' from what I thought would be the geographical Balkan
For All Pedernity 4 months ago
I've never heard of a definition of the Balkans that includes Hungary and Moldova. If you draw a line from Odessa to Monfalcone a small southern part of Hungary is below the line, but that is not how the region is usually defined.
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Corvus 4 months ago
Ha, Romania used to be "cultural" Balkan as well, a long time ago... but nowadays they pretend they don't recognize us ;)
Auntriarch 4 months ago
They are probably just jealous because Romanian wine is so nice.
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Auntriarch 4 months ago
The only reason my family don't eat pie for breakfast is that there's never any left after dinner.
Abby Louise Rexroth 4 months ago
What the hell is the difference between eating pie for breakfast or a fruit Danish?
David 4 months ago
and this you can tell was not made by an American, bc no one ever thought i meant New Englander. A Yankee literally means someone from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut (the only of the 3 that is New England). Vermont hasnt been Yankee since they broke off from NY over 230 years ago. Yes, to the world, Yankee means American. But outside of the South, where it means a Northerner, in the midwest, mountain, and West coast, it only refers to the North East. In the North East, it literally only refers to the 3 states I mentioned. Whomever did this, really does not know US Culture, or the Term, and really butchered it. Vermonter, like most New Enganders would consider Yankee an insult, bc of the New England/NY rivalry since colonial times, with Conn, somehow being both. Its why our baseball team is literally called the Yankees
Squirrel Chaser 4 months ago
So you've traveled extensively around the US and studied the use of the word Yankee. Got it.
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kathleen Sinclair 4 months ago
Canadians often use it to mean Americans from the northern part of the USA.
José Luis Arriola Sáenz 4 months ago
In the red section, not all Americans are called Yankees. Only Americans from the USA. The USA is not the same as AMERICA.
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Christophe Beunens 4 months ago
US Bases in Europe are a direct consequence of the second world war, where economic help with the Marshal Plan, was connected by having more influence on defense (at the time, more focused against facism, instead of communism)
AnnaB 4 months ago
You need to have bases close to the countries you're most concerned about. i.e. Russia, North Korea, and China. Europe is also concered about them, so there's no real reason for them to have bases in the U.S.
Space Invader 4 months ago
Actually, we grow increasingly concerned about the U.S....
Load More Replies... Mary Sutherland 4 months ago
I'm sure the Americans would be happy if Europeans wanted to help defend the US from China and Russia.
Auntriarch 4 months ago
I'm not even sure what this map is meant to imply. Especially given the country of ownership of BP.
Load More Replies... Michael None 4 months ago (edited)
You're welcome? Close em all down then and Europe can pay for their own military defence against Russia.
Tom Brincefield 4 months ago
They've started doing that. And they are doing it by increasing their local ability to manufacture their own weapons and armaments, rather than buying from US manufacturers. So less sales and income for US companies, less jobs & wages for American workers.
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Daniela Lavanza 4 months ago (edited)
Why is Ireland independant as an island whereas Sardinia and Corsica are linked to Italy? aren't kilometers of water not a natural border? I get it regarding culture and history but there's nothing natural in this.
Auntriarch 4 months ago
I'm just relieved that New Zealand isn't there somewhere
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Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
3 words. Brazillian Fart P**n. YOU did this, South Park 😂
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Kira Okah 4 months ago (edited)
A realistic styled Roman copy of a Greek statue of a dying Galatian man vs the highly stylised Mšecké Žehrovice Head, a Czech Celtic artwork. BS meme is BS.
arthbach 4 months ago
The later reminds me of the style of the Lewis Chessmen. Beautiful, and highly stylised.
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For All Pedernity 4 months ago
That comment under the pic just exposes the commenter's own ignorance.
Kira Okah 4 months ago
Neither sculpture depicts a Germanic person though.
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sbj 4 months ago
I'm surprised at the result for the UK, I'd have thought it would be a close run thing between Beer and Spirits for us
Foxglove🇮🇪 4 months ago
Where I'm from in Scotland, buckfast was the go-to so I guess wine covers all those types of drinks
Load More Replies... Kevin Ber 4 months ago
As a person who loves ststistics, its important to remember this map is based on volume, not by alcohol % per volume. 1 liter of beer at 5% per ml is not the same as drinking 1 liter of Spirits at 40% alcohol per ml. If the map was adjusted to a standard alcohol % consumed per liter, it would change significantly. Also, it's impossible to track alcohol consumption in the Balkans, everyone makes their own alcohol. In Serbia for example, Beer is not the most consumed alcoholic beverage, it's the Rakia made in every 3rd person's house.
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Abby Louise Rexroth 4 months ago
Yeah, I guess I would lean towards homic**al if I didn't have fast internet 🤪
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Ron Man 4 months ago
Nope, another false map. This map isn't drawn off of actual ancestry, it's drawn from surnames. Surnames in the US are almost meaningless to identify where someone is from. When Europeans came through Ellis Island, if their name was unspellable or unintelligible to the person who was admitting them to the country, their surname would be changed to something "common" that was easier to spell or say. We call these Ellis Island names. My surname is very British. No one in my family came close to ever being in the UK at any point in time. But there you go.
Tom Brincefield 4 months ago
Well, my maternal grandfather's family was of German descent, many generations ago, but the other 3 grandparents all go back to the British Isles and Scandinavia. So I'm mostly on the English end.
Geoffrey Scott 4 months ago
True. Appalachia area is more Scottish descent.
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Geoffrey Scott 4 months ago
Sister in law told me there needs to be prayer in Michigan schools.."Oh, so you're ok with kids in Dearborn praying to Allah".."NO!".."But that's how it would work"..
Michael Largey 4 months ago
As long as there are Algebra tests, there will be prayer in schools.
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fellowhumanbean (she/her) 4 months ago
omg the filipinos in alaska must be freezing so bad my lola thinks its freezing here in georiga already
Jnausicaa 4 months ago
I know a Flilibascan family and they love the cold and salmon lumpia.
Load More Replies... Johnnynatfan 4 months ago
If Trump has his way there will be no immigration legal or otherwise.
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Yrral Spavit 4 months ago
OK, maybe because I'm lying down but this one flew right over my head :p
Apatheist Account2 4 months ago (edited)
We'd have had no need to discover a different route to the Indies to get spices - the ostensible reason for Columbus to go across the Atlantic - so no discovery of the Americas. Don't worry about the Vikings or those who went across via Alaska :)
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marianne eliza 4 months ago
Do you really think that we would get to the 21st century without knowing about N &S America?
Puppy Dancing! 4 months ago
Spices took forever to ship from the far east, and they wanted a shorter trip so they came to North America and said Indians! We found India, cheap spice! They were wrong but right in that the new world have peppers, named papper to compete with the old spice that used to be the only way to make things spicy.
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Kimberly Alison 4 months ago
I don’t agree with this at all. The people in Minnesota are the nicest people I ever met.
Northlander72 4 months ago (edited)
I played D2R with a guy from Wisconsin, and if there ever was someone who personified all the good characteristics of being an American, then he certainly did. He was warm and affable pretty much all of the time, he'd laugh at all my dumb jokes and generally speak well of either the pictures I sent him or the weird-a*s builds I made in the aforementioned game. And then one day, one of his friends told me on the PS chat that he had suddenly just passed away. I was honestly a bit surprised at how hard I took his passing.
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Johnnynatfan 4 months ago
The Southeast map is spot on. Those people are act like they have southern hospitality blah blah blah. Its a bunch of b******t. The Northeast, people aren't mean they are direct and wont put up with b******t and people get offended by that.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 4 months ago
💯 The southeast has the most faux-friendly mean-girl kinds of people I’ve ever met in my life.
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Glen Ellyn 4 months ago
What an arbitrary map. Someone wanted a tidy map to explain what THEY experienced. Stereotypes galore.
Agamemnon O'Neill 4 months ago (edited)
the NE should be acts mean, is nice; SW is acts nice, is mean; SE mean/mean; NW nice/nice
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David 4 months ago
why is there a neo-n**i caracture of a jew? In fact the most common one in Neo-N**i and alt-right circles here?
D 4 months ago
Because the small minded masses have once again become obsessed with the oldest hate in the world to answer the simple problems of the failures of their political leaders ….
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Janissary35680 4 months ago
While briefly at Indiana U (Bloomington) studying for a master's in linguistics, I used to go to the language lab at least a few times a week to keep my Turkish fresh since I wasn't hearing or speaking it. The lab was almost always empty. The obviously bored person minding the control desk would cut in to listen to me. (I could tell by a subtle change in the sound level.) After the second session, curiosity got the better of him and he asked what the language was because he'd never heard anything like it before. Turkish sounds like Turkish. It doesn't really sound like any other language except other members of the Turkic languages family.
troufaki13 4 months ago
The first time I heard Korean I was so confused because I thought I was hearing Turkish. Mind you, I don't know the language, but being Greek I have heard it many times.
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Auntriarch 4 months ago
Ooh can I have Belgium please, frites and The Chocolate Line!
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Cristi nah 4 months ago
And the other island is Cyprus? What is Cyprus doing in the Atlantic
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Ace 4 months ago
Again? No, ITYF this is intentionally historical, not supposed to represent current ambitions.
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Rick Murray 4 months ago
I'm about to wet my pants laughing that somebody actually made a map of this, so I guess +1 pee credit for northwest France.
Daniela Lavanza 4 months ago
I don't even get it. Sorry if my question is stupid (probably it is!) but isn't human body working the same way everywhere?
Rika 4 months ago
I guess weather and diet can have a big impact: people in hot countries pee less because they sweat more. And people in some cold countries pee less because they need to drink less (and if the toilet is outside, you probably don't want to drink so much that you'll have to pee in the middle of the night by minus 40)
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YukiChou 4 months ago
Yellow up blue down = flag of Upper Silesia. Blue up, yellow down = flag of Ukraine. The others: brands (or brand products) with the same colours as the flags of these two countries.
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Rick Murray 4 months ago
Is this really AI? Most of those words are readable and not gibberish that sort of resembles letters.
General Anaesthesia 4 months ago
AI hallucinates, so "pretending" might not be completely accurate.
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
Psh. It doesn't hallucinate. Humans just don't understand what it's doing. It's not responding, it's generating a suitable continuation of the conversation based on previous conversations in its training data. The training data includes fictional content, so the AI doesn't see any problem with generating fictional ideas *so long as the it fits the context of the conversation*. Working as intended. Poorly, but intended.
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Jude Corrigan 4 months ago
I think it is saying that European cities were named first and America copied them and pretended they were better.
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I wish every country would pronounce foreign Cities in their original name. Like Köln. Or München (pronounced like Hühnchen)
Ace 4 months ago
In many cases place names have changed through history, often with change of allegiance or national 'ownership'. Some people may no like the new name so will stick with the old one, some people will pronounce it differently over time (talking hundreds of years here) and some will use names in one language or another to try and make political points, which may, or may not, result in another name change later. Living in bi-ingual areas for the last 25 years it's very evident, such that sign posts often need to list destinations in two forms. So it's not as simple as you may think, and in any case the "Original" name may be lost in the depths of time from hundreds or even thousands of years ago. . . . Should we refer to the UK capital as "Londinium", and New York as "New Amsterdam"?
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ChakatBlackstar 4 months ago
You know you're from Wisconsin if you can visit Luxemburg, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Berlin, New London, & Poland all in one afternoon. Americans are good at many things but original city names are not one of them.
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These map posts used to be actually mostly relevant and interesting, now it's just 95% memes. Plus images are getting more and more blurry, small and hard to read.
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