30 Interesting Facts About The World Represented In Unconventional Maps
Interview With ExpertCartography is cool. Where would we be without it as a species? I, personally, wouldn't know that my country looks like a tiny Africa and would get lost driving in any new city that I visit. We can also learn tons of cool stuff from maps, like in which countries it's illegal to dance on a bar.
If you like learning new random facts and are partial to geography, you'll probably love Fan Maps. It's an Instagram page that features cool, interesting maps that let you learn something new with each different one. Eager to get some knowledge? Scroll down and check them out!
To know more about mapmaking magic, we reached out to Daniel P. Huffman, a cartographer and a mapping educator. He told us more about what the day of a cartographer is like, what misconceptions people have about his job, and what's the secret to making interesting and creative maps.
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It's a really good version, AND it's easy to add/drop states as circumstances change.
Load More Replies...They're on there, just really small (bottom left of Texas and under California) cause they have such small populations, and putting them in the proper spots would make everything small since Hawaii is far away
Load More Replies...According to the population? What's center lower? Is that Texas? Bigger population than Florida AND New York?
Florida's pop is 22 million, New York is 19 million, and Texas is 30 million
Load More Replies...I was gonna say the same thing, but I guess in some areas of the country you can't safely drink it
Load More Replies...This is totally false. In latin america there are lots of countries where You can drink tap water. I'm from Uruguay and drinking from the tap is the most common and harmless thing. This map only shows the ignorance of some people in the first world.
Search thetruesize website, you can move the countries and see their real size, so interesting.
https://www.thetruesize.com that is a good site! Cool to find out that Chile is really long! And Sweden is not as large as it appears 🤦♂️
Load More Replies...Yep, Australia's about four times bigger than Greenland, but you'd never know it looking at a map.
Mercator went the way of the dodo with the invention of the Winkel tripel projection in 1921.
That must be why almost every world map you see today is a Mercator projection.
Load More Replies...Call me ignorant, but I never realised this! So interesting. That website thetruesize is great also
The story of how Daniel got into mapmaking is a long one, and he has detailed it in his blog. But he agreed to tell us the short version, too. "I like maps and wanted to pursue a creative profession while struggling with depression," he told us via email.
For him, making maps is a form of art. "Mapmaking is a practical art: we have to fulfill specific goals and produce something functional, but it's also very much down to individual preferences of aesthetics and taste. It's like any artisan — a maker of furniture or pottery or a designer of buildings, etc."
Before continental drift they probably did... but as plate tectonics separated the continents and raised the ocean floor land lifted to their east...
Load More Replies...The Appalachian Mountains were caused when what is now France bumped into North America, before the Atlantic
No? There's no tectonic border on the US's east coast, the fault between the Americas and Afro-Eurasia is in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. When those plates pushed together, this mountain range formed. So the pic is correct: the plates pushed together, made the mountains, and then split
Load More Replies...Does it? All the orange in southern india is surprising to me.
Load More Replies...I used to live in Veralum Road, St Albans UK, as a kid, we were always finding bits of Roman pottery in our garden
Didn' they say that jesus went to India after that golgatha incident? Maybe he took some savings with him?
Load More Replies...True, but the Romans always had a very high opinion of themselves.
Load More Replies...Yup we Indians ran the call centers for the Roman empire as well!!
Load More Replies...So my chances of finding a Roman coin is low but not zero, got it.
I find it interesting that there's parts of Italy where the coins haven't been found.
Either that or someone has been making patterns with the shed hair in the shower again
Still, there is a fair amount of practicality in mapmaking. "Another common analogy I use is journalism," Daniel tells us. As an educator, he often used to have journalism students in his courses, so the two disciplines somewhat overlap.
"Journalists go out and gather as much information as they can, but they then curate what information is shown to the reader," the mapmaker says. "They decide what pieces are most critical and leave off the rest. And then they use their creative skills to find a way to present that information in an engaging way."
If you remember one thing the next time you see a mercator projection map, it's that Greenland is about the same size as Mexico.
It seems New Zealand has migrated west and subsumed Tassie! Ineed to start watching the news again!
Damn kiwis coming here and stealing our states.... 😁👍
Load More Replies...There are a lot of rails in Germany, but taking the train has been pure chaos since it was privatized.
I am old and can confirm that it wasn't any better back then, due to "overpaid and lazy civil servants, it will be better to privatize, so they really have to work for their wages and everything will get more efficient and cheaper for the customer".
Load More Replies...Ukraine could cut just two RR lines and split off east russia and a lot of oil/gas.
I don't recall a rail line going to Yellowknife (checks). Sonofagun, Hay River, NWT.
It was necessary; the buggers kept stealing our sheep.
Load More Replies...This is not a good illustration of the density of castles, but it is a good illustration of the difficulties of gathering comparable data across different countries. If you look up 'castle' in an English-French dictionary it will tell you it's 'Chateau', but that doesn't mean that every chateau is what we would call a castle. Thus you end up with a skewed distribution.
This is something to bear in mind when you see things like maps of self-reported happiness around the world. It's impossible to ask the same question to all the people sampled because the word 'happy' has different connotations in different languages / cultures.
Load More Replies...I love castles so much, but my partner never wants to visit them when we travel. He's like "Xan, I'm from a place where you can walk down to the local newsie and trip over a castle." (make sure you read that in scouse) Looking at this map though, not nearly as many as he thinks lol.
Again, this is wrong, just as it was the lat time it was posted. The vast majority of the French ones are not 'castles' as we know them, they use the word 'chateau' for pretty much any large house.
Load More Replies...So, what do mapmakers actually do? Aside from the creativity aspect of the job, where do they get their information from? "My days are spent on the computer," Huffman tells us.
"Gathering data, processing it through specialized geographic information software tools to get the pieces that I want, and then using graphic design software to style things how I like — setting labels, choosing colors and line weights, etc. And there is a lot of email[s], of course. Going back-and-forth with my clients and such."
Here's what Wikipedia says about USA Romes: Rome, Alabama Rome, Georgia Rome, Illinois Rome City, Indiana Rome, Indiana, an unincorporated community Rome, Iowa Rome, Ellis County, Kansas Rome, Sumner County, Kansas Rome, Kentucky Rome, Maine Rome, Mississippi Rome, Missouri Rome, New York Rome Laboratory, formerly sited at Rome Air Force Base Rome, Ohio, a village Rome, Delaware County, Ohio, an unincorporated community Rome, Morrow County, Ohio, a ghost town Rome, Richland County, Ohio, an unincorporated community Rome, Oregon Rome, Pennsylvania, a borough surrounded by Rome Township, Pennsylvania Rome, Tennessee Rome, Adams County, Wisconsin, a town Rome (community), Adams County, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community Rome, Jefferson County, Wisconsin, a census-designated place
Load More Replies...I'd send help because it's in my nature but, my one brain cell imploded...
Load More Replies...Thank god they likely served the drinks at the Super Bowl with paper straws. Plastic straws would be so bad for the environment ...
Every little helps but we should be banning private jets and taxing the rich into a climate fund.
Load More Replies...I know. I live here. Why are all the big money events held in Phoenix? Do you know how many people it brings out here? The traffic and overcrowding is hell. God forbid we decide to go out to dinner spur of the moment! 2 hour wait times!! It's the desert. You're not supposed to like the desert. Go away!
I like to imagine the loner yellow one flying back home to Montana to their big a*s ranch or maybe Tom green heading home to Canada
The map has been altered slightly. Where is Kansas Missouri Arkansas and Oklahoma supposed to be?
Apparently, mapmaking doesn't sound so cool to everybody. "When I tell people what I do for a living, I am often met with a response like: 'Hasn't everything been mapped already? Why are there still mapmakers?' These responses always surprise me. People seem very unaware of how often they interact with maps," Daniel points out.
We moved - again, I'm just not sure where we are now, but it's sunny. Anyway, there were battles in New Zealand in the last 300 years.
Load More Replies...wow the UK is like that drunk bloke in the car park of a pub late on a Saturday!
Haha exactly!! I was like come on, low in Canada? Lol
Load More Replies...People laugh about pirates but they are not at all what you think. I know someone who was kidnapped by pirates off the coast of the Philippines. He managed to get away after about a month but he was genuinely traumatised.
I would never have guessed the West coast of Africa as the highest incidence. I would have put money on Somalia/Horn of Africa.
There is a diverse marine ecosystem there and few enforced regional laws that result in a high incidence of illegal fishing. Illegal fishing is tied to all sorts of transnational crime including slavery, d***s, and arms smuggling.
Load More Replies...My cousin used to work on a yacht owned by a super rich dude. They would sail to some exotic location and he would fly in to meet them. Any time they had go around the Horn of Africa they were required to hire armed guards to protect them from pirates. Crazy!
My husband used to have to go to primary school with an armed guard in the Philippines (he grew up during martial law). His grandfather was a prominent lawyer and therefore a target. His half-brother's father was assassinated. Violent times.
Load More Replies...D**g piracy in the Caribbean was why I sold my 38' Ingrid ketch. Lost several friends.
This map is made before Thanksgiving. After that day, the map is all yellow.
How could I missed that.. 🤦♂️ just went along with black being the new blue.
Load More Replies...Well my state has had no incidents involving armed turkeys. Just a local incident of turkeys harassing individuals at local coffee shop. No human or fowl harmed.
I am guessing that there are jive turkeys in Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina
Are you a vikings fan? Can you tell me if this is correct?https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eP9rwUlXPbQ
Load More Replies...And he's probably right: we use maps for almost everything, but they've been so ingrained into our everyday lives that we barely register how omnipresent they are. "In the Western world, most of those people have probably seen several maps just that day: on their phone, in the news, on a sign by the bus stop, etc.," Daniel says.
"We interact with maps constantly, but for some reason, people don't stop to think of them as 'maps' when I tell them that I am a mapmaker. There is a person (or group) behind every map you consume," he gives us some food for thought.
But now you're more tempted than ever to knock them all off the edge, right?
Load More Replies...What happened to Ireland? It IS an island! But Britain certainly isn't, and it's there!
Ireland is south of Iceland with Belgium (?) and Portugal on , either side. The things are bit jumbled. We got Italy as a neighbor in this version for example
Load More Replies...Puts into perspective how massive Russia is and how Putin is a f3cking greedy b@stard who certainly doesn't need to expand his oligarch empire...
ASIDE from Scandinavia, it seems like quiet has a lot to do with repression.
Load More Replies...How? There isn't a colour that's blacker than black!
Load More Replies...I live in the Netherlands, and have never heard anything about people in the west part of the country being louder than in the east part of the country. This is not a known stereotype here. I wonder if this map is based on anything or just something that 1 person made up.
I'm from the east part and I can assure you they are.
Load More Replies...Does anyone really believe that those bottles have water sourced from where it claims?
Poland Springs is. Poland Springs is owned by BlueTriton now (2021). Which is owned by Pabst Blue Ribbon. And the water still comes from Poland, Maine and other springs from the surrounding area. All from Maine though. So Poland Springs is ok again, IMO
Load More Replies...Fun fact: I used to work at an old bottled water place that shared the trademark Ozarka. This independent company held the trademark in our state longer than Nestle had existed. They first tried to just buy us out. When that didn't work they came up with some agreement which of course went sour and then a lawsuit followed. Nestle won by arguing in court that consumers would be confused by 2 Ozarka "spring" waters. After that we had to rename only our spring water, haha. Let me tell you, I had to constantly explain this to consumers who only saw the "Ozarka". Literally no one ever asked me about the "spring" difference. Nestle is a cancer!
I had a bottle of water in car for emergencies. It had an experation date. I ignored it thinking it was dome silly regulation because water doesnt go bad. Then I found out that the longer it is in the bottle the more the plastic leaches into the water. Now i have a metal can.
Load More Replies...I remember Arrowhead water from our trip to California years ago. Tasted nasty compared to the bottled (or tap) water where I'm from (Switzerland)...
We get Arrowhead in our area and it literally reminds me of drinking from my high school water fountain.
It probably literally is just tap water knowing them lol
Load More Replies...i never realized ice mountain wasnt ice mountain in other places!
"All maps are subjective, just like anything created by humans," Huffman says. "Someone made decisions about what should be shown and how. And everyone will do it differently." He goes back to the journalism analogy -- how different journalists can cover the same topic from a different angle. One might choose to omit a thing, and others would include it in their piece.
It makes elections infuriating, as a continually proportionally shrinking minority gains ever tighter control over National policy.
Load More Replies...City and metropolitan areas, as of a few years back it represented red and blue areas, maybe still.
What are the shaded counties? What are the deep coloured spots? Thank you for the information, I am non-American old but curious.
The lighter white lines represent county borders. The total population of the darkest purple areas, when added together equals half the population of the US.
Load More Replies...The dark areas are where the biggest cities are, so naturally more people would live there. For instance, along the West Coast that would be, from top to bottom, Seattle, Portland, the Bay Area with Sacramento further inland, Los Angeles, and San Diego cities with all their suburbs. I have no idea why Kitsap County in Washington is blue - I wouldn't have thought there were that many people there.
They just didn’t have a clue who he was and were curious ? Lol
Load More Replies...At least they're not in danger of fundamentalist religion!
Load More Replies...Love NZ on the wrong side of Australia. Cartographers really don't like NZ.
I sort of doubt this. Sweden is very secular and we have a lot more actice muslims then active christians. (Saw one number on 20% vs 4% of total population)
I can believe that there are more active muslims than christians, but your numbers are way too high. 8% identify as muslim, active muslims must be a little lower.
Load More Replies...Iceland and France make little sense, maybe this is why the French want to change their refugee policy. Not to be judgmental, but green also represents much of the low economic areas.
It's the way the number 57 is formatted when spoken in the various Asian languages, translated into English. So, where I would say 'fifty-seven', the number as spoken in the blue areas would translate into English as 'seven-and-fifty'.
Load More Replies...well, even Roman numerals were symbols of numbers placed side by side...
I am living in an Arab contry and have learnt to speak enough (basic) Arabic to oder food etc., I took my family to a restaurant and was ordering food when the guy recommended best value meal for the family and said its only khamsa thamaneen (85) and I translated his number the English way and actually thaught it to be a good deal for 58 only to learn later that's the other way around.
My question is is this how they are actually spoken as, or how they are represented on paper (Kira Okah gave a great example of that with the Chinese example... thanks)? Or is it a mix of both?
It's more on how they sound spoken, coincidentally the example by Kira goes same way spoken and written but if you read my comment above about 85 and 58 of Arabic and English it'll make sense, another example for the same number; Urdu for 58 is 'atthawan' or Punjabi is 'athwanja' where ath-8 and wan or wanja- 50 so it is Eight and Fifty
Load More Replies..."There's nothing nefarious about that: you just make different decisions. It is the same for maps," Huffman tells us. "We all consider our audience and make assumptions about what that audience needs to know. On a tourist map, I might choose to show certain popular buildings but probably would not show something like crime statistics, even though both of those things are part of the reality of the place."
Looks like they moved into the vacuum created by the fall of the Soviet Union.
Load More Replies...Aldi is in Australia too. It’s where I do most of my shopping actually.
Load More Replies...ALbrecht DIskont doesn't sound very Australian to me.
Load More Replies...Population of South Korea is shrinking every year. England has the benefit of immigration.
Wow, this thread is getting a little xenophobic. Unless you're from the Eastern and Southern halves of African, we are all descendants of immigrants. Humans have been migrating and moving around the globe for at least around 200,000 years. People who live alongside recent migrants to their country can indeed feel discomfort, friction and aggrievement. But as history as shown, there is a net benefit to migration in the long run. The term "illegal immigrant" in my mind is a relatively recent arbitrary construct.
The British complaining about immigration causing overpopulation is deeeeeply ironic. Love, New Zealand.
Well, Scotland does contain the UK's ballistic missile submarine base... (which the Scottish National Party doesn't want, yes yes I know that, but it's still there in the here&now). Faslane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMNB_Clyde
Load More Replies...Almost all immigration everywhere is legal. The only people who suggest otherwise are lying xenophobic hatemongers and those who have fallen for their lies.
Load More Replies...Almost all immigration everywhere is legal. Genuine refugees are protected by law in almost all nations so that however they escape to a safe country, it's legal. People who complain about large-scale illegal immigration have either been taken in by lying xenophobic hatemongers or are themselves lying xenophobic hatemongers. I'm looking at you, Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson, Suella Braverman, the Daily Mail, the Telegraph, etc., etc.
Load More Replies...English here. I'm all for a bit of good-natured joshing about our neighbours on these septic isles, but that sort of thing is uncalled for.
Load More Replies...Slartibartfast and his mates ran out of ideas and used copy/paste. ;-)
Load More Replies..."There's no set answer to how to be 'interesting and informative,' but it helps to always keep your audience in mind. What they want, what they expect, and how easily they can read what you are trying to communicate," the mapmaker and mapmaking educator says.
Huh, and growing up in Tennesse I would have always thought Mexico would have been closer
It's that bit by Toronto, in Ontario. Dips down much further than most people who aren't from the northeast realize.
Load More Replies...There doesn't seem to be that much difference between 250 and 500. Unless I am blinder than I thought, they look exactly the same
I'd like to see a larger version, but at some point all the extra edges (really extra vertices) simply make improvements that don't matter at the scale being used. It's a lot like drawing the Earth as a perfect circle. Even if you draw the circle 50' in diameter it's an extremely accurate representation. The necessary correction for Mt. Everest would be about 3/8" out from the circle, but it wouldn't be an abrupt change from the nearby areas.
Load More Replies...sorry for the makers, sorry, but I think it's one of the most useless map I've seen...
Interesting how at ten lines, it suddenly becomes potentially recognizable as the US.
Recently... before the last census, Portuguese was the most common foreign language spoken in Rhode Island.
Load More Replies...The German one is North Dakota with the capital Bismarck. Named after the family Bismarck, mainly Otto von Bismarck. Good man. Responsible for the health insurance in Germany.
Actually the Germans in North Dakota aren't mostly Germany Germans. They're German Russians who immigrated from what is now Ukraine and Romania. Those Germans (who did consider themselves German rather than Russian) moved to those regions following Catherine the Great. There wasn't enough land in Germany so they moved to Ukraine for more farmland. They also spoke a different dialect of German. Source: A)Lived there for 8 years and b)am German Russian. Technically my family would be considered Ukrainian and Romanian based on birthplace location but we don't, we consider ourselves German Russian.
Load More Replies...Ohio used to have a much higher German population before they banned German for a period of time. The government is the worst sometimes. 😣
Here are some fun map facts for you: one of the oldest surviving maps is the Babylonian Map of The World. Archaeologists date it back to around 700 to 500 B.C. The map was a clay tablet nearly the size of an iPhone.
At the center of the map was a circular Babylon, divided by the Euphrates River and surrounded by the ocean. Historians say it wasn't so much about navigation but about imagining yourself at the center of the world.
Wish the word "European" was in the larger title... was looking for US for about 15 seconds before I read the description under the title. Sad thing is, I instantly started looking from the "worst" end 😆
Yeah US would be another 100 countries along in the chain anyway. You've got terrible workers rights over there.
Load More Replies...If I moved to Romania I'd still have better work life balance than in the US. And free healthcare. Probably free childcare too.
Nothing is free. Not even healthcare and childcare in countries who provide them "for free", by law. You alway have to pay something, whether it's the equivalent of 20 USD in the pocket of a doctor or a nurse, or a "gift" from all the parents for the teacher of their kids, on her/his birthday or at the end of the school year. It's not free, but it's not mind-numbingly expensive either, as in the countries where "free" doesn't exist and you need to pay fro every single bit of healthcare, even calling an ambulance.
Load More Replies...I've never heard it called "life-work," Only "work-life," This is so much better! Place the emphasis on the life part...
Using 756,096 sq km as given area of the nation and https://www.converttobananas.com/ the answer is…
Load More Replies...France and Denmark, the only countries where you first have to master mathematics, before you can learn how to count to 100
In France they compound the confusion by always quoting phone numbers as pairs, so 801595 is quatre vingt quinze quatre vingt quinze (four twenties fifteen four twenties fifteen). I genuinely once heard this on a radio advert. Of course it might have been 958015, I don't recall where they left the slight pause.
Load More Replies...There are stlll remnants of the old Germanic (2 + 90) system in English, such as in "Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie". It also appears in the numbers 13 (really "three & ten") and 14 ("four & ten") and likewise in 17, 18, and 19 as well.
Welsh had a vigesimal system, but it has moved over to the decimal. The old way of counting is still valid, and is used by some older people. 92 is 'deuddeg ar pedwar ugain' . It is 'twelve on four twenties'. In the decimal system it's 'neu deg dau' - nine tens two. 'Fifty' can be 'hanner cant', 'half a hundred'.
We can also call it "normal", "weird", "obscure" and "algebraic". But I wonder if Danish people have better results in algebra, it sounds like they grew up with it.
I'm not sure I understand? When we say ninetytwo is that 90+2? So then in France they say twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, twelve? Naw!!! You're pulling my leg. Math must be the hardest subject in school, and making change is a real challenge.
I live so close to Denmark that we go on holiday regularly there. I was thinking of adding Danish to my list of foreign languages but I think I might reconsider now...
If you do you have my utmost admiration. I'm danish but lives in France and whenever I speak danish I start to think so much about how it works that I loose the ability to string coherent sentences together. I have however heard that if you speak German it gets easier, most German tourists I've met spoke danish.
Load More Replies...Very simplistically said: because they have a system based on 20 instead of 10. In English you say how many times 10 it is, plus 0-9. In French you say how many times 20 it is, plus 0-19. They already simplified the English one though, making it seem more simple. Because the English one should be 9*10+2 and not 90+2. And the difference between 9*10+2 isn't that extremely different from 4*20+12. The Danish one, is interesting, because they say you're halfway through the 5th set of 20 (so 5*20 - 10), plus 2.
Load More Replies...A more accurate first attempt at a map was by Claudius Ptolemy. He located towns with the help of documents and by speaking with travelers. He put his findings on paper on a system of longitude and latitude and plotted around 10,000 locations. It included places in Britain, Europe, Asia, and North Africa.
Luck? Even god (or any other deity) couldn't fix that mess...
Load More Replies...It is France, no the EU, although there are some agreements with foreign train companies. The lines are extended though Europe, but the project stems from the will/need to revive night trains within France.
Load More Replies...It's not France planning, but UE. But at the moment, doesn't work well
They usually occupy a little strip up the middle. ;-)
Load More Replies...Some map drawer needs to get better at drawing everything to the same scale lol
So I live outside Denver about where the dot of the “I” in the word Relative. And my sister lives in Houston, TX, between Prague and Milan on this map. Driving away from her house, 12 hours o driving and I hadn’t left Texas yet.
oooo I like this one a lot! would be interesting to see the entire US map like this honestly.
Liberia should be on the map, as it was colonised by freed slaves from the USA, and not Europeans.
Load More Replies...The Romans, which would become the Byzantine Empire. The capital of Byzantine was Constantinople. Held power in the area up to the Ottoman Empire.
Load More Replies...Was it not the British Protectorate after it was known as Bechuanaland and then became Botswana...?
Load More Replies...Give me half an hour and an extra kilometer, and I'll take you to Asia and South America as well. Untitled-6...9975c9.jpg
Maybe recent age, but not from start. " Requirements for a dance permit were already in the Ordinance Act in 1956.[7][8] At the time of its creation, there had been debate for many years about the increasing occurrence of dance performances and "immoral" music (especially jazz), alcohol consumption and uncontrolled meetings between young men and women, which in the debate was called Dansbaneeländet" (dance floor misery, see wikipedia) https://sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dansbana
Load More Replies...It's gone now, but someone without permit could be "be sentenced to liability for violations of the Public Order Act" - wikipedia and Google translate.
Load More Replies...from the start if was because of immoral music as jazz..
Load More Replies...Since the OP didn't find it necessary, here's what this is about. That thick red line shows all of the US that the border patrol considers to be within 100 miles of the border, where they can stop, detain, and search you without probable cause. Chicago is actually over 200 miles from the border, but they treat the shore of Lake Michigan as the border.
Every airport designated “international” i.e. open 24 hours is considered an international border, so the 100 mile range for stop & search applies there too
Weird that East and west coast are 100 mile border zones… but more that 100 miles from any other country. Even 100 miles from international waters…. They should be thinner.
? It’s saying 2 out of 3 people in America live within 100 miles of the edge, coast, border or whatever you want to call it of the US. Not another country
Load More Replies...Lake Michigan is not an international border but sure. I don't need a passport to take the ferry from Michigan to Wisconsin.
Thankfully, San Antonio (TX) is just outside that area. We're about 140 miles from the coastline.
The Rodenator. Basically a flamethrower you put in gopher tunnels and... well you know.
Load More Replies..."Prohibited weapon" in the UK, and possession can lead to up to ten years imprisonment.
Load More Replies...A little surprised they only require a licence in California given how often they have wildfires. They are completely illegal in Australia because of bushfires. Still get idiot farmers using them to do 'controlled' burning even though not allowed and all burning should be done under supervision from fire services.
Thank you, Maryland. In many ways, Maryland is the only sane state in the US.
Absolutely amazing, are low yield, tactical nukes allowed. Only for home defence obviously!
I believe the year restarts anew every time a new emperor reigns.
Load More Replies...My clinician at work was telling me about her culture and how hijiri time is and how she has now, two birthdays since coming to Australia
It's explained above when Julie asked the same question before you did (per the time stamp).
Load More Replies...On my calendar it says it's the year 4.500.005.783. give or take a few million years
“Hey, at least we’re not Idaho!” - an Oregonian, probably
Load More Replies...I asked a guy from Spain what the name California means. He said it sounds like archaic Spanish for hot oven.
The state is Idaho. It was apparently given the name by a prospector named Willing, who said that it was a Shoshoni word meaning 'gem of the mountains', but it turned out to be nonsense. There are various theories about how he came up with the name, including one that he named it for a woman named Ida, but nobody knows for sure, and likely never will.
Load More Replies...Hail the Gulf Stream, we are not ready for what’s coming when it collapses.
The Gulf Stream is not collapsing, it's being incorrectly conflated with the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, which is at risk of being disrupted by melting arctic ice entering the system: https://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/feature/will-the-gulf-stream-really-shut-down/
Load More Replies...Ok, but my great grandpa actually immigrated from Germany so it's not self Identified
They are talking about The ancestors who migrated to the US. So when it says German, it means they had an ancestor who migrated from Germany.
Load More Replies...Michigan has the second most ski resorts? I always hear of the "out west" skiing.
I think a lot maybe cross country. My dad talked more about cross-country skiing he did as a kid growing up in Michigan than downhill skiing.
Load More Replies..."Yes, I'm afraid he's an ex-parrot" is what I say when someone has died
Load More Replies...I was thinking about this new load of synonyms for "Unalived"... "Was called home" is quite nice, and hard for BP censors to clip!!!
Load More Replies...I have lived in New York my entire life and have never once heard anyone use the phrase "entered eternal rest."
What gets written in an obit might not be what people say in conversation
Load More Replies...b******t. Michigan is absolutely Driver's License. Grew up there and got my Driver's License there, so I would know.
I'm gonna start calling it an Operational Permit just to be edgy.
In case this isn't clear, it's the increase in the duration of daylight from March 1st to 31st, not the December solstice to the March equinox.
I don't understand this map... USA are mono-ethnicity? If so, we need to talk. Unless it is saying that China is mono-ethnicity, in that case we need to talk some more.
China is over 90% Han, not as diverse as we could expect.
Load More Replies...Brazil is 60% mixed race. The United States is 50% non-white. So this map is just wrong
I'd say culture, given Victoria is labelled as California and top of Queensland is Florida
Load More Replies...Not very accurate though - the state they've put Texas in (Western Australia) is actually about 4 x bigger than Texas
Load More Replies...Texas is the size of NSW. Small in comparison to WA which is one million square miles.
Huh? Alaska is 2 times larger than Texas. I don’t understand what this mapis trying to tell us.
I understand this map as one giving the equivalent US states stereotypes and I guess socio-economic importance in relation for a better understanding of Australia to Americans. It isn't related to physical size of the said regions
Load More Replies...I’m so confused at being put as north Carolina 😂 wtf ( the Gold Coast is nothing like it weather wise).
But not as large a population as other Christian religions outside of Utah and some closer areas to Utah.
Load More Replies...I always thought they left when they realized they were living in Ohio. But you might be on to something here...
Load More Replies...Ohio is one of the worst states to drive through. So bland and boring. The only state worse in my opinion is Nebraska (granted I have not been to every state).
There's no need to Google "Mexican restaurants" in Texas. Just look up from your phone and there is probably one right in front of you.
I just Google "nearest chipolte" and break into a full sprint for the car to go there
I think it's to show how many immigrants are in each area? They were born outside the US and immigrated here.
Load More Replies...I'm surprised that VA and MD light blue isn't bigger. Most government employees live in the suburbs, not the city.
I don't know if I agree with this map. California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas should have a bigger orange portion in their blocks. With out borders open, I know there are more Mexicans and Latin Americans who were born in their home country who are now residing in one of those states. New Mexico and Texas' blocks don't seem accurate.
Maybe the 'flood' isn't quite the tsunami you've been led to believe.
Load More Replies...Am I the only Non-American who thinks it's super confusing that the conservative party is red and the liberal party is blue? While red is the color of socialism in most other places?
It is confusing and in fact it used to be the other way 'round. The switch occurred in my lifetime and not all that long ago.
Load More Replies...That’s crazy that there was such a landslide for democracy in 1964 after J.F.K’s assassination.
Literally no one voted Dem in 72 though. Anyone know who the democratic candidate was in that election? Lol
Load More Replies...There are more, they just don't get enough votes to qualify
Load More Replies...Where they say about the men: the odds are good, but the goods are odd.
Load More Replies...I can understand why Oppenheimer is trending hard in New Mexico but Mississippi for Barbie? I just don't get it especially since Barbie was born in New York City.
It's almost as if your preconceived notions might be wrong...
Load More Replies...Kinda not surprised the Conservative states chose the less intellectual film (jokes on them! Barbie had a great message)!
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