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Maps I Find Bizarre
Aug 7, 2025
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Maps I find bizarre
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US states where you can't pump your own gas. Alright, so you can put petrol in your own car in most of the US
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apart from New Jersey, where someone else has to do it for you, and in Oregon, where you have the option of someone doing it for you
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but you are allowed to do it yourself. That's so bizarre. I think it was like an old-fashioned thing, right
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Where you'd pull up and then be a little fella there ready to pump the gas for you
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but it's just not needed anymore. In theory, pumping gas was once a bit more technical and dangerous
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So that was the reason they originally had, like, pumping gas attendance, If that's what you call it nowadays, it's mostly just politics of not wanting to get rid of jobs
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I mean, you know having jobs is good. It's an interesting one though famous cartoons from different countries
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All right, let's see what i've heard of whoa Ah, I enhanced enhanced and the map is projected on top of itself. What is going on? This is horrifying
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All right, I guess we won't enhance so the uk has peppa pig. That was a terrible snod. Sorry guys
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Peppa pig i'm not gonna do the snot around the us has tom and jerry obviously very famous
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Let's see what else I have heard of. So Masher and the Bear, I only know because they have like a billion subscribers on YouTube
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Puffin Rock, even though it's only an island, I do not recognize. Moomins, I feel like I have seen that before
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Smurfs, where are they from? Is that Belgian? I did not know the Smurfs were Belgian
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Pingu, Switzerland? Pingu is Swiss? I would have been so confident on Pingu being British. That's so interesting
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Ah, help! I can't get out of it. Share of people in Europe that want the rich to be taxed more
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Okay, so 75% of the UK want the rich to be taxed more
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Yeah, I would agree with this. It's very odd. Basically, the richer you are, the more legal loopholes are available to you
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And you can just pay way less proportionately than somebody else. It just doesn't make any sense
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But you can see that basically everywhere in Europe has a majority that want taxing the rich to be more of a thing
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There are some low numbers though. We do have 42% over in Estonia
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And perhaps that's because they think the rich are already taxed enough. I don't know. I can answer for the Nordics
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All right. So they're saying that numbers are quite low here, apart from Sweden. People are probably less likely to support this
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because the income tax rate progression is already pretty steep. So they think they're already being taxed a fair amount
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Sweden might be the exception because it's a country with exceptionally high wealth inequality
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Yeah, the Finns have been pretty pleased in general with how we tax our wealthy. Okay, very interesting
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Vershikilifa compared to the size of Vatican City. Ooh, I like this
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So Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, and the Burj Khalifa is the tallest building in the world
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And you can see that they're basically the same height slash width or length, I don't know
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Now what this makes me think is that Vatican City is bigger than I visualized
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because Burj Khalifa is bloody ginormous. So I've always pictured in my head that I could walk around the entirety of Vatican City in like half an hour
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Surely this is not true. United States economic activity split in half
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Okay, so I think that's stating that financially, the orange and the blue sections are equal in value
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I mean, this is a bit of a continuation on people wanting the rich to be taxed more
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Let's get back to the maps. Religious composition of the UK. Okay, so Christians make up 46
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compared to atheists, which make up 37%. These days, I would have probably expected atheists to be the majority
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It is rather close. I wonder if it's perhaps because we have quite an average aging population
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There are just a lot of older people in the world, and I think it's getting less common with younger groups, generally speaking, anyway
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Muslims then make up just short of 6%, and then everyone else is very low numbers
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Oh, we can actually see the breakdown of the Christian population. Pretty high in the northwest, which is interesting
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I suppose perhaps this is more just a population map. So there's millions of people that live down here
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So of those millions of people, a bunch of them are going to be Christian. And that is then reflected in the atheist population map
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which kind of shows the same proportions. This is what Antarctica's land looks like under the ice and snow
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Okay, so the blue is where the ice actually is, but there is land under there, which is very interesting to see
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And then the ice has kind of just gathered and gotten big and chunky. I always like the shape of Antarctica
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I love this little on the end, you know what I mean? It's like it's just trying to give Argentina a little tickle
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Very nice. Camouflage patterns in Europe. This is always quite interesting. So military camouflage obviously changes depending on the military in question
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So this is the UK's classic camouflage, but it actually varies so much in each individual country, which makes sense
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Everyone, I guess, wants their own one. You don't want to be mistaken for another country, probably
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But you're all designing effectively the same thing. It is just interesting seeing different interpretations
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This one's a bit wacky. Latvia's gone very pointy shapes, as is Sweden as well
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It's very kind of hexagonal, you know. But I do like rushes with all of the sort of 8-bit feel it's got
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Football soccer matches that are banned by UEFA and FIFA. Ooh, now firstly, this map kind of hurts my eyes to look at, I'm not gonna lie
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Secondly, that's something I've never considered. I actually don't know that much about football
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so I don't know if it is just randomised who plays who. I guess it probably is
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But they must have these four hardwired in, where they basically roll again if Ukraine and Russia end up matching each other
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which does make sense. Probably a smart idea. Obviously, they just think the amount of drama and conflict that would be caused by these two teams going against each other is just not worth it
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I guess it keeps things from being too political, too. Peak of the largest empires in history
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Okay, so we have the Mongol Empire, which spanned a very specific collective region
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and then we have the British Empire, which does take the lead and kind of spanned all over the place
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Obviously, both are long gone now, but things like the Commonwealth do still exist
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Acceptance of homosexuality in the US by state. Okay, I mean pretty terrible to see actually these numbers are very low nearly 50% of people against being gay in a lot of these states
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Some of which in the south actually form a majority, which is just appalling to think about but yeah, even the high numbers
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Not high enough 87 over there. It's things like this where you realize how far behind some countries are
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This is usa that meant to be the most powerful nation in the world and this is part of their representation
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It's just mad and then from there we go straight to does your states have an official firearm? Okay
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Well, I mean, need I say anything else? Countries with no skyscrapers
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Another interesting map, something that I've never thought about before. So much of Africa not having a single skyscraper is just crazy
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I mean, obviously, I'd never expected Madagascar to have a skyscraper, but it's still something I've never properly thought about
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So they're counting skyscrapers as buildings that are over 150 meters, which is pretty tall, but it's not that tall
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It's a lot of big countries. Look, we've got Portugal here. They don't have a single skyscraper in Lisbon, for example
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Really interesting stuff. A skyscraper in Liechtenstein would be higher than the country in its diameter Oh now that kind of puts into perspective why that would not make sense Ooh Greece will soon no longer be on this list
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They currently have two skyscrapers under construction. The center of Siena in Italy, which has a population of 30,000
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is roughly the size of this highway interchange in Houston, Texas. Population zero
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Wow, that is kind of mad. So many houses, streets, culture fitting in this space
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And then here, just some wiggly roads. Ooh, number of YouTube channels in Asia with over 10 million subscribers
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I'd actually like to see the numbers for England. I want to see my stat. What's my contribution
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But anyway, you can see numbers are pretty low for a lot of the place
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I wonder who that one Chinese YouTuber is. Oh wait, it's 10 million. I wouldn't be on the list at all
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Obviously, India has a pretty big slice of the pie on YouTube these days
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So nearly 500 channels with over 10 million subscribers. But generally speaking, pretty low numbers
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a lot of countries don't even have a single YouTuber, like a lot of the stands over here
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Oh, here it is, number of YouTube channels with other 10 million subscribers. So there are 71 in
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the UK and I'm not contributing to any of that because my biggest channel has 4 million. But
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that's still good. Oh, look at that, two in Ireland. So I know one of those would be Jacksepticeye
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right? But I don't know the other. These numbers are pretty low. Actually, Asia has us massively
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beat. They had like hundreds. UK do have the most. Quite interesting to think like the sidemen will
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there'll be a huge proportion of that 71. But 62 down in Spain, that's way higher than I would
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have anticipated. America's humidity belt, average number of summer days with a daily maximum dew
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point of over 65 degrees Fahrenheit. Okay, really interesting to see these shapes. So what is it
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that stops all the heat? Is this where the Rockies are? I don't know. Kind of, yeah. But I don't think
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that quite lines up, so I think there's other factors. Please let me know in the comments, because these are rather significant. You can see it's very interesting how it just avoids
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sort of this central point in Mexico as well. Daily Irish speakers in the Republic of Ireland
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Calig is pretty uncommon in the majority of the country. Apart from over here, there is quite a
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hotspot. 60% of the population in this territory. Since the year 2000, every male Olympic water
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polo champion has been born within the circle marked on this map. Well, there you have it. Look
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at that. What does this tell us? Is it just coincidence? Is there something about the air
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over there? It's funny how some sports in the Olympics are dominated by a very specific region
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of the world that takes the sport very seriously. Yeah, I guess it's probably culture based and
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occasionally it's a genetic advantage. See horn of Africa runners. That's also environmental
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training at altitude. Yeah, exactly. That's very interesting, but I don't think that's
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happening here. I think it's probably more culture based. And also it's a pretty large
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circle. You know, it's not like it's a very specific region. It's spanning all the like
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five different countries. The different Americas. Yeah, people use the term America and often
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get things wrong. I've definitely been guilty of it in the past. So America is comprised of
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North and South America and everything in between. Latin America is South America plus sort of
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Central America, Mexico territory. Hispanic America is slightly different. That's the countries that
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speak Spanish, which isn't everywhere, but it is a majority. Then we have Ibero America. I don't
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know what that is. Region in the Americas comprising countries or territories where Spanish or Portuguese
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are predominant languages. All right, so it's kind of mixing the two together. And then this map doesn't
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even include North America and South America, so a lot of different Americas to get confused with
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California divided into four equally populated areas. Never get tired of a population density
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map. Also, I love the little cute Californian flag cartoon up in the top right. But yeah
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there we go. We can see a red section must have a very intense population because it is equal to
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that of the green. The legality of owning a flamethrower in the United States. Yeah
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pretty much everywhere is up for grabs. It is banned right there and it legal as long as you have a permit over in California Never thought about the legalities of having a flamethrower Are they legal in the UK I imagine not No surprisingly they prohibited weapons Is there a practical use for a flamethrower
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When is an actual time that one would be useful? Military weapon, yeah
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Clearing enemy positions. Burning away vegetation. Is that an acceptable use for the average American to have a flamethrower
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Psychological intimidation. All right, fair enough, US. Have fun. World GDP in 1500 versus 2018
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Wow, that is a really wide range of time. Okay, so 1500, obviously the Americas weren't really discovered
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so they're kind of all shriveled up. Africa not doing much, but Europe was pretty well established
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as were places like China and India. Whereas these days, yeah, way more going on in the Americas
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I'm actually surprised the USA isn't chunkier. United Kingdom has gotten a little bit bigger
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Europe a pretty similar size. Let's actually do a little bit of comparison
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Africa's actually shriveled up even more, which is like really sad to see
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Australia kind of on the map. New Zealand looking proportionate to itself, which is quite interesting as well
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And India and China still dominating a lot, as long with Korea as well
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Is that Taiwan? Big old chunky Taiwan. Fair play, Taiwan. 25 out of 27 of America's largest cities are sinking
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Wow, this video is just ripping into the USA today. Jacksonville's on the up
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There you go. That's nice. It is kind of mental to think about in our lifetime, what we will witness literally go underwater
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There'll be a few island nations where it is really not that far away. Gold holdings in Europe
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All right, who's got the most gold? It looks like it is Italy
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There'll be some historic gold. Quite close behind is France and also Russia have a lot of gold
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What's going on with Norway? Why has Norway got a little cross? Did they not provide any gold data
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What are you up to, Norway? map of hadrian's wall with important towns and forts so even though i live close to hadrian's
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wall i've never actually visited it and i'd love to walk all the way across maybe that'd be a fun
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little video newcastle upon tyne obviously i have been to but i've never been up to the wall and i've
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been through carlisle as well so i've driven past hadrian's wall but obviously these days there's not
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that much of it left still a big chunky fella though in all fairness shout out to hadrian
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scaring off the romans with his big wall he's like nah go on look at me wall yeah see you later
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that's what i thought chances of being born in each continent fixed by birth rate that's actually
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quite an interesting concept you're about to be born and you have a proportionate chance of going
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somewhere in the world based on who is having the most babies another one there's a 50 chance you'll
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be born somewhere in asia and 40 somewhere in africa and then pretty low everywhere else quite
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an interesting way of thinking about it zero percent chance of being born in antarctica i bet
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there's been a few though at least 11 people have been born in antarctica the first was emilio marcos
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Palmer, born in 1978. All births have occurred at research stations, primarily by Argentinian
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and Chilean citizens. Kind of cool, isn't it, to be able to say you were born in Antarctica. You
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are one of the 11. Hey, look, I don't blame them. Probably gets pretty lonely down there in the
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Antarctic research stations. Longest non-stop flight in the world, New York to Singapore
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with an average of 18 and a half hours. That is insane that they can do that in one journey
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Look at that. You're basically over the North Pole as well. That'd be so cool. I love being able to
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see it on a flat projected map as well because it really throws you off on like the shape of the
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earth birthplace of the world's hundredest richest people very surprising to see none of the top 100
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born in the united kingdom really wouldn't have thought that you know we don't have any like kings
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and queens that would go on the list a lot of activity in the rest of europe quite a bit over
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in southeast asia but then the majority it looks like are actually in just the united states all
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