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A map of early internet in 1969 and it is literally just three cables over on the west of the USA
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Kind of mental to comprehend. To be fair, the physical side of the internet is actually still pretty crazy to think about
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Like, they have wires that are going across the Atlantic Ocean in order to connect the Earth together
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That's crazy. Average morning wake-up time of Europeans. Okay, so Iceland didn't want to get involved in the fun graph, that's fine
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and then for a lot of people, it's about 7.30, but towards the east and the south Mediterranean
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it does push up a bit. More like 8 a.m. And latest is Greece, 8.25 a.m
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Lazy bones. I'm an 8.30 to 9 a.m. kind of guy. I can't talk
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Where war elephants were used. So the red area shows extensive usage of war elephants
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and the yellow area shows they sometimes dabbled in and out of using elephants for their war
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Now, if we were to go ahead and put intense, unethical cruelty to one side for a moment
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It does look badass when you've got a war elephant, but I'm not on board. But if it was in a film, I'd think
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God, that looks cool. But to be, yeah, to be clear, no, I don't like the concept of using any animals for war
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I don't like the concept of using humans for war. I don't like war, I think is what I'm saying
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Question mark in Europe. This is something I've never thought about, but it is actually quite interesting
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So all of the green areas, which is basically 96% of Europe
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the question mark is just one of these fellas, a question mark. But over in Spain, they shove an upside-down question mark in every so often
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That's actually kind of crazy. I mean, it's normal if you're Spanish, but it's kind of kooky from the outside
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And then Greece are whacking out semicolons. I did not know that. Oh, and so does Cyprus as well
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Cyprus not one to feel left out down the corner. Sorry, Cyprus. Could this be the future of the European Union
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The EU and Canada have signed an agreement that brings them significantly closer. A step towards membership question mark
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Why not? Let them in. The more, the merrier I say. Not actually from Europe. That's all right
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Don't worry about it. Atheists are prohibited from holding public office in eight US states
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This is something I've ever thought about, but wow, that's really interesting. So mainly southern states, which you would guess
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I don't know how many secret political atheists there are out there that just happen to have been born in the wrong area
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but still have political admirations. Map of rabies-free countries and territories. I think I've had a rabies vaccine when I was a kid, right
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No, they're not actually part of routine schedule. You just would get them if you're at a high risk
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because you're traveling somewhere or you, you know, you play with bats or something. So most of Europe have eradicated rabies
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Most of these small island territories also have. I suppose it's literally just physically easier
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But a lot of the world, rabies is still something to worry about, which is crazy because rabies is like really scary
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Have you ever seen someone that's got rabies? It's kind of, it's terrifying. Nationality of Nikola Tesla mentioned in his Wikipedia page in each country
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Ooh, this is interesting. So in the plain blue country's Wikipedias, he's described purely as Serbian
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But in the striped blue, he is described as Serbian and American
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who is from Serbia. So he's Serbian then, right? Russia describe him as an American inventor of Serbian origin
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Okay. Spain, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands describe him as naturalized American of Serbian origin
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I don't quite know what that means. Croatia says that he's a Croatian American who is from Serbia
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Then Germany, Switzerland, etc. Like, I'm not getting involved. I don't know enough about Nikola Tesla
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It is just very interesting to see something like this. Because it's a rather good ogy for how you can't always trust history
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It depends who's telling you this history. There is always another side to the story
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Africa white population 1960 versus present So we have Leicester than we used to but 10 of Algeria was white back in 1960 which is pretty high i mean 1960 was kind of a bit of a turning point for colonialism that is
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when the uk released a lot of african countries and when i say released i mean released but i
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assume a lot of people bailed out at that point in time so we can see that present day numbers
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are significantly lower i think everywhere right i'm actually surprised that the numbers in south
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africa are as low as eight percent i would have thought it would have been perhaps still closer to
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that 20 how do you call istanbul so istanbul was originally called constantinople until turkey
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changed it but we see that places like greece and cyprus they still stick with the old name
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constantinople it's a good name i like it most other areas of europe have adopted the new name
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but then we do have areas around the balkans who dabble between istantinople and saragrad which
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which does sound cool as well. UK versus France, 300 years of population changes
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Ooh, okay. So in 1710, the UK had a population of 7.3 million
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and France was at 22.5 million. So then we progressively grew. UK at a faster rate
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So UK is like tripled, quadrupled in this 140 years. Whereas France has grown by 1.5 or something
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By 1900, our populations were very similar. Wow, France is barely changing in 50 years
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whereas the UK added another 9 million and then another 9 million again in another 50 years
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France actually shot up a lot as well though, giving us almost identical populations. So what
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is it in 2025? Oh, it's still very, very close. That's interesting. So UK was very far behind
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then it caught up, but then France had gone at it in the last 80 years and now we're still very
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very close to each other. 8 million people have migrated to the UK, whereas 3 million have
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migrated to France, so France has slightly higher natural growth. European domestic air routes where
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train travel is just as fast. Okay, so even though you can get from Manchester to London in about two
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hours, there are still 45 weekly flights, and when you're adding on, like, security on each end
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surely it's better to just get the train. I suppose an issue that this map doesn't bring up, though
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is train prices, I know it, at least in the UK, very expensive, and there will sometimes be flights
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that are a bit cheaper than the train, which I understand is ridiculous, but they need to sort
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train prices before they expect people to use the trains more even though obviously
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environmentally the train is going to be way better so you can get from berlin to frankfurt
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in about four hours and then another three hours will get you to munich but there are still 100
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weekly flights just from frankfurt to munich as well milan to rome three-hour train i imagine it
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would be a nice little view as well on the way yeah on paper trains surely have more benefits
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but obviously the reality can be a little bit more complicated there was a guy who wanted to
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ago from sheffield to essex and realized it was cheaper to fly than go by train and by fly i of
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course mean from sheffield to berlin and then from berlin to london and getting the bus home still
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cheaper than the train see that's ridiculous that cannot go on oh god the world's doomed topological
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world map where only land borders matter oh this is the most ugly but simultaneously beautiful thing
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i've ever seen so this is based purely on land borders rather than scale or actual shape it is
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just including what borders what. And you can actually still visualize everything
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Like I do feel like Europe still looks a lot like Europe. I think UK and Ireland doing a lot of the hard work there
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Does Denmark not connect to Sweden at all? There's a bridge that connects them. Do they not have any actual land borders
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Look at that little dinky exclave of Russia over here. Yeah this is really interesting to look at I wonder if it 100 accurate or if they messed up anywhere Look at South America See it still very recognizable as South America I don know how consistent their usage of scale is if there is one at all because Australia and New Zealand are identical and small
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down there, but it feels like they've made UK and Ireland bigger than necessarily was needed. Like
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why does this UK and Ireland not look like this UK and Cyprus? Yeah, Africa is pretty unrecognizable
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See, it's all main principle being put all the way to the south, and I guess it's because things are
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drawn as squares rather than, you know, having this like little bit under Western Africa
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Singapore borders stuff. Why is Singapore by itself? Singapore is an island state. I thought
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it bordered Malaysia. Look at that. Yeah, there's a river all the way around it. I genuinely never
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realised that. I'm used to looking at it from this distance, but yeah, I suppose technically it's an
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island. I mean, it's a river, but it's an... I mean, I'm not getting into it. Let's move on
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World Health Organisation membership status 2026. So, that's not great, that is it. Every country is
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part of the World Health Organization, apart from the USA. Okay. Traffic light sequence in Europe
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Right. Okay. So wait, what's happening? Right. So amber and then it goes to red. So that's all
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the same. I'm so confused. Wait, wait for it. Okay. But some, oh, some, right. So it's so difficult
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to try and get any data from. So the UK at some pedestrian crossings does like a flashing amber
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things so that's like i think it means go if it's clear don't quote me on that yeah the the amber is
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pretty inconsistent for for yeah oh this is such an annoying map to look at because i can't look at
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anything before it moves and then i have to wait until it comes back around again ah the british
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isles drawn using polygons okay so four polygons i mean even at four polygons you can still tell
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it's the british isles can't you then you've got five seven ten yeah fifteen is where it really
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starts to look recognizable and that kind of looks like a british isles logo or something 20 yeah
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fair let's jump all the way over to 100 oh 100's quite satisfying you know like it's only 100
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polygons but it still looks pretty accurate particularly ireland and northern ireland
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1830 map of the known world at the end of the 15th century so this means they've just discovered
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the americas they have not completely explored them at all but they've pretty much identified
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the caribbean greenland as well africa very much discovered australia nowhere to be seen now that
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is really interesting to see oh we get it enhanced okay yeah look at that oh that's nice it's a
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pretty looking map isn't it so i guess this shows they didn't really know how big russia was either
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which is interesting what if all of the ice melted this is how europe would look i don't like how
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this is being visualized because they've used the ocean to show the current borders but the ocean
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should just fill the whole thing it shouldn't be any white bits it should be all blue but whatever
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I'll go with it. So we can see that Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium is pretty much completely
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underwater. We can also see that it's probably a bit soggy in London and you should bring your
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wellies. Ooh, Portugal actually disappears fairly significantly while Spain does remain for the
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most part. Rome is certainly more shriveled and then, whoa, I don't even know what's going on over
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here. There's no border so it's kind of hard to see but a lot of Russia is gone there. Wow
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that's interesting. I mean, it is actually happening, right? I think that is confirmed. Well, good luck to us
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Ultra processed food as a percentage of household purchases. So I wonder what defines ultra processed compared to just processed
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But in the UK, 50% of the food that we eat is ultra processed, which does not sound ideal
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And that is the worst in Europe of the countries included. And we can see that the countries further south towards the Mediterranean far far better around sort of 15 to 20 which you know that pretty good Guys eat a tomato I used to hate tomatoes I spent 20 years hating tomatoes Give them a chance Put
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them in something else. Put some black pepper on them or something. If you take nothing more from
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this video, it's just maybe have a tomato. Give it a try again. Who controls the North Pole? Okay
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so international waters throughout nearly the center. Canada have a pretty huge chunk
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as does Greenland, but Russia's is by far the largest there. But Iceland get involved because
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Iceland do actually manage to get ever so slightly within the Arctic Circle. They're just dipping
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their toes in at the bottom. Where's this? Is this another section of Norway? Look at this
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international waters here. It's interesting that no one nabbed that. Same with this bit. Map of
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rubber ducks that washed up worldwide after a shipping container accidentally spilled 28,000
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of them en route from China to the USA in 1992. It's a shame that it's like horrific for the
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environment because it's quite interesting to see how far they actually managed to travel. The fact
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that they still showed up like 15 years later in the UK and they spilled where in Hong Kong? My god
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that's mad. Ryanair carries 183 million passengers each year putting them in third place globally
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Wow. You know I've never considered the fact that Ryanair only go around Europe but that makes such
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perfect obvious sense. Wow that's a crazy amount of flights. Yeah they have got that place locked
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down. I think the last two times I flew well they were Ryanair and I ordered a coffee on the flight
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It was horrific. I think it's the worst coffee I've had. It was just full of coffee bits. The whole thing feel free to eat a tomato
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But don't order a ryanair coffee. What was I thinking? It's my but I mean I should have seen it coming
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Let's be honest countries where cheek kissing is a common greeting. Well, it's actually way more common than I expected
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It's nice. It's a sweet idea But I don't like people being that close and I don't like thinking about like germs spreading
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I don't know that you don't necessarily actually have to kiss the cheek You can just kiss like near the cheek
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But like, I don't like shaking hands because it's unhygienic. But at least you could wash your hands and then shake someone's hands
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Where you can't really wash your mouth. If you've got germs, they're spreading. It's fine, though
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Carry on. Don't let me spoil the fun. Where the Dutch drive for their holidays. Look at that
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Look at them just having a little exploring Europe. It's so fun, that. I really just want to get in the habit of doing that
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I know it's slightly harder in the United Kingdom because you've got to get out of the United Kingdom first
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But once you make it to France, you could have a whale of a time on a little European road trip
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Look at that. The four corners of Africa are near quadra point of four distinct countries
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Yeah, so this could have been the only quadra point in the world, which would be the only place where four countries touch each other
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But Botswana needs to move over a bit, so Namibia can get involved in this little point over here
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Or Zimbabwe could move this way ever so slightly. Basically, Botswana needs to be like, yeah, go on then
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It would be kind of cool, wouldn't it? It'd be good for tourism. You could put up a little pole with all the flags on
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It'd be great. I'd visit it, or I'd say I would. How to say how in European languages
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So in the UK, you say how. In Ireland, you say how. In Netherlands and half of Belgium, you say how
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In Germany, Austria, and some of Switzerland, you say vi. In France, they say come
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In Spain, they say como. In Portugal, they say como. In this part of Spain, they say come
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In Italy, they say come. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, they say caco. In Bulgaria, they say cac
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In most of Romania and Moldova, they say come. In Greece, they say pos. In Turkey, they say nasal
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In Ukraine, they say yak. In Poland, they say jack. In Russia, they say cac
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In Estonia, they say kudos. In most of Finland, they say mitten. In Sweden, they say hur
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In Norway, they say vordan. And in Iceland, they say hivoring. Well, there you go
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And you know what? On that note, I think I'll end that video there. Hope you enjoyed. Thank you very much for watching
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