Mind blowing facts, now with 100% more maps

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  1. racer

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    Not terrible
     
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  2. Bert Handsome

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  3. bigred77

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  4. bro

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    suck it Kentucky!
     
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  5. $P1

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    Some questionable data in that map
     
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    I’m gonna need to do “my own research” on this one
     
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  7. racer

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    Let us know how it goes after you wear the bloody meat suit into the ocean.
     
  8. HuskerInMiami

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    My aunt had a house on the Mississippi river in northern Iowa and we saw a bull shark in the river. At first I was quesitoning how they could be in Missouri/Illinoi, but I'm sure there could be a bite in the river.
     
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  9. racer

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    Do aquariums count?
     
  10. bro

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    No
     
  11. Duck70

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    Imagine going swimming in fucking Missouri getting attacked by a damn shark.
     
  12. Bert Handsome

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    We'll have to check with Tara Reid to get confirmation
     
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  13. racer

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    You’d survive because at least 80% of its teeth would be rotted out.
     
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  14. Bert Handsome

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    Nelly did have a big ass fish tank on MTV Cribs back in the day.
     
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  15. TC

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    ♫ I've got some oceanfront property in.....New Mexico? ♫
     
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    New Hampshire has 17 miles of ocean coastline and not one single shark attack. They must be doing something right.
     
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  17. Carl Brutananadilewski

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    there is a very tiny sliver of Bosnia that touches the sea between split and Dubrovnik, and I know that because we went through customs when we drove through it and it caused like an hour delay in getting to Dubrovnik :whyioughta:
     
  18. chet fire

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    I was just reading about the lil' gap!

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    Croatia is currently building a bridge that will connect from near Kiek on the map to the peninsula that zips right under Neum. I figured the boundary must have been a result of some negotiations in the 90s, but it's actually from a treaty that was signed in 1699!

    And why was I all of a sudden reading about Croatia this weekend?

    [​IMG]
     
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  19. The Banks

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    They just finished putting the bridge together. Now it’s just working on the access points and it’ll be open in a few months.
     
  20. chet fire

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    Strangely enough, Banks, they'll still have to take a ferry to get to the island with the airport!
     
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  21. The Banks

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    I do this every time I go to ketchikan. Where the bridge to nowhere was supposed to be
     
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  22. racer

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  23. War Grundle

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    Some cool stuff in that link.
     
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  24. Bert Handsome

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  25. chet fire

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    Crazy thing is that that map is latitudinally accurate. In other words, if you took the Mediterranean Sea and scooted it about 100º west, that's where it would end up.

    You usually don't think of northern Italy as being on the same line as Montana, but there you go.
     
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  26. Bert Handsome

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  27. TC

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    Mind blown rn. Thread title accurate
     
  28. Henry Blake

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    Pretty nice temp ranges
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  29. chet fire

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    Edmonton, 180 miles north of Calgary, is the northernmost metropolis in the Americas.

    Aaaaand, it's about on equal footing with Manchester, England.

    Edinbergh, Scotland, is further north than Ketchikan, Alaska.
     
  30. The Banks

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    Makes more sense when you think about wine
     
  31. The Banks

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    Ketchikan is basically coastal BC
     
  32. TC

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    I was in Prague midsummer once. Sun went down at like 10 and came up at 4. I'm like wtf? Then I look at my map and realize I'm on the equivalent of the northern latitudes of Canada
     
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  33. racer

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  34. TC

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    I’m from that sweet Moroccan climate
     
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  35. TC

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    Let's list the directional extremes we've traveled to.

    Farthest north: Berlin (52 degrees North)
    Farthest south: Buenos Aires (34 degrees South)
    Farthest east: Taipei (121 degrees East)
    Farthest west: Seattle (122 degrees West)

    (Longitudes go 0-180 and latitudes go 0-90)
     
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  36. TC

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    I've often compared Atlanta to Beirut
     
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  37. War Grundle

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    Didn’t realize London was that far north.
     
  38. NoNatty

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    the Oregon coast and south of Spain are basically the same climate. Checks out.
     
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  39. racer

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    North: Vikoyri, Norway 61
    East: Stockholm 18
    West: San Francisco 122
    South: Cape Canaveral 28 N

    I need to get out more.
     
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  40. TC

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    I fully expect some TMBer to say they’ve done both north and south pole
     
  41. Truman

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    North Vancouver
    East Toyoko
    West Vancouver
    South Jamaica or Puerto Rico (not sure which is more south )
     
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  42. TC

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    We were expecting you to go through Wikipedia and get exact coordinates for each.
     
  43. Keef

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    North: Gothenberg & Inverness 57
    West: LA 118
    South & East: Mombassa 4 & 39

    I need to Asia
     
  44. TC

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    Had to google that one. Oldest city in Kenya, nice
     
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  45. Truman

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    too much work
     
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  46. Keef

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    I just went to google maps and clicked on them
     
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  47. TC

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    Truman is a low effort poster
     
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  48. Icculus is a Bammer

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    Basically the same. I excluded nov - mar as it doesn’t fit within my argument of it being basically the same. Plus no one goes outside during those times anyways
     
  49. Goose

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    So you’re telling me that my social studies teacher that said the closer you are to the equator the warmer the weather is full of shit
     
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