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Maps I find thought-provoking
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Birthplaces of the 100 fastest 10,000-meter runners of all time. Okay, this is actually fascinating
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You can see there's three people who were born in Morocco, we've got a couple in USA and Canada
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but then, if we head into the Horn of Africa, a huge number of the all-time fastest runners
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all came from this similar area of Kenya. Now, I've been trying to look into this
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because it's really quite interesting. It turns out that almost all of these runners are from the same Kenyan tribe
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which is called the Kelinjin, and basically a combination of their genetics and their culture have just made them perfect long distance runners
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Listen to this. Kel and Jin have particularly thin ankles and calves, a body build common to Neolithic tribes who grow up near the equator
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This is particularly important in running because your leg is like a pendulum. The more weight you have farther away from the center of gravity
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the more difficult it is to swing. So they're stereotypically all just born with slightly thinner ankles
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than like the global average. There's also loads of other things like the area is just a really high altitude
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so they get used to having to breathe in slightly difficult conditions. They'd often have to run to school
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Their culture has some difficult initiation tests, which build up like high pain tolerances
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It's all very interesting. This is possibly the most interesting map we've looked at so far
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Countries with a higher life expectancy than the United States. Well, first, let's find out what the average life expectancy of the United States is
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In 2019, it was 78 years, whereas in the United Kingdom, it's 81 years
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So it's not that much difference, but there is a difference. So we've got Canada, Chile, UK, a bunch of European countries
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Australia, New Zealand, and also Japan. Interesting. What gasoline is called around the world
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Whoa! So almost all of the Americas basically call it gasoline and in the UK we call it petrol and apparently we're the only people in Europe to do
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So most of Europe Russia and North Africa call it benzene apparently
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I've never heard of that mountain area percentage of some countries so in Nepal it's 80% mountain Switzerland 83
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Armenia 85 Montenegro 89 to Jakistan 91% and boots on 98% that is insane right
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We are going to Bhutan and we're gonna just shove our little yellow fella somewhere and I'll bet
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We're on a mountain we've got a 98% chance of being on a mountain or near a mountain. Yes, big fat mountains all around
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Beautiful very nice. Oh, yeah The new longest possible train journey in the world and Hansen Hans
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So we start down in the south of Portugal we make our way through Spain then head into France then into Germany
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Poland, Belarus all the way across Russia then down Mongolia and then into China deep China as well then where are we you we going like via Laos
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I think maybe ending off Malaysia and then finally Singapore. What a journey. That would be insane
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Apparently the map creator thinks that it would take about 14 days to do it all without stopping
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It's not that long is it? I tell you what that would be one hell of a jack-sucks-a-drug with you video, wouldn't it
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Oh exactly 100 years ago the British Empire was at its territorial peak Look at how much control the British Empire had That is scary Map presenting coldest temperatures ever measured in Celsius
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Minus 27? When was that? The top comments just, ah yes, the grey penis
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And there it is. Bet the map makers thrilled that a grey penis is the takeaway
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from what I assume took quite a while to research. Closest capitals when in the USA
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Right, I'm confused by this one. Obviously, it makes sense that Ottawa, Canada is the closest capital in this north part of the USA
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But why is Reykjavik, Iceland there? So this blue part of Alaska's closest capital is Iceland
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I need to look at a map. Okay, Iceland's here and Alaska's there. What? Is it just because it's so out of the way
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There must be something to do with it all curving around. I just can't get my head around it when looking at this kind of map
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Hang on, I know what I need. Wait there. Look what Becky got me for Christmas. It is a Mac Men poster with the Pierce Quincyncule projection
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So it's a map that senses the world around the North Pole. So apparently this part of Alaska is closer to..
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Yeah, I guess that makes sense. I'm still kind of confused. And then another big portion of Alaska's closest capital is Tokyo
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Okay, that one's easier to visualize. I think basically what we've learned is Alaska's really out the way and Russia's really long
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Map of the 2,191 meter deep Karubara Cave. The deepest known cave system in the world
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So this is it in comparison to the Eiffel Tower's height. and it goes way deeper
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Oh my god, I've just loaded in the full image. Whoa, that is deep. That is deep. I want to see some Google Images
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Whoa, that is absolutely terrifying. Oh my god, that is the most haunted I've ever seen a man look
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Right, I'm frightened. Let's move on. The red part contains more people than the blue put together
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So we've seen a lot of maps this style, but they've made even more striking by not just like classing one country as one space
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They've included like the least populous parts of the US in this map just to have as much blue as possible
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And that's mad because India and China aren't even included in this. It's mainly Bangladesh
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Maybe they've shoved a little bit of India in. I don't know. Terminology of the British Isles. Yeah, this is an easy one to get wrong
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So the British Isles is everything. The United Kingdom is everything minus the Republic of Ireland
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And what's that? The Isle of Man? So is the Isle of Man not in the UK? I didn't know that
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They've got England, Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland. Yeah, you can see why people get it wrong
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It's the same with the Americas. A lot of people would call the United States of America, America
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But really, America is basically North and South America. Which is what, like 50 countries
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And then the North of the United States of America is not North America
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This is North America. And Central America isn't Nebraska and Colorado. Central America is Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, all those places
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It's all very confusing. All roads lead to Rome. This map visualizes the famous roads built by the Roman Empire That is insane There so many You would not expect them to be anywhere near that detailed like you think that you have a road that takes you to london and
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then they wouldn't have built any other roman roads but obviously i'm completely wrong there the countries with the most islands sweden has 221 000 islands let me have a look on my map so
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when you'd look at this you'd think that norway would have more islands because i mean there is a
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lot of islands there but when you go ahead and zoom in on sweden's coast a lot of islands keep
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popping up over and over again like you know there's three right there you can understand why
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there's 200 000 it surprised me the united kingdom has 6 000 though that's absolutely mad pool ownership
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in the united states all right everything about checks out we've got a lot of pools in california
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and a lot of pools in florida where's this though i can't think where that is it is arizona so my
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question is if we change to satellite can we please see a load of pools please oh i found a
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pool guys we've got at least one pool there it is it's a big pool as well that is a beautiful
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colored pool isn't it right based on the terrain here i see why you need a lot of pools okay a bit
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sick of saying pools now so let's say male circumcision instead a lot of people still
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getting circumcised in africa and in the us as well bloody hell it's like 80 well uh fair enough
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global hunger index 1992 to 2018 okay hopefully we've got a big improvement yeah there's an
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improvement does seem like things have gotten a lot better in eurasia but this world map is very
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much just the stereotypical color layout of most global world maps that we see here's another map
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showing some positive improvement literacy rates in middle east and northern africa by age groups
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so people that are 65 and older very few of them are actually able to read and write but clearly
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there's been significant improvements in the education system in recent years because 15 to
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24 year olds we've got like 92 99 89 that is really good to see decline of celtic languages
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in the british isles in a previous video i pronounced this celtic and everyone made fun
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of me so this is every 200 years so in 400 ad everyone spoke celtic and then slowly since then
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the germanic languages that we now speak slowly taken over very similar territories in their shape
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oh this is my kind of map so they're saying the country tanzania is very similar shape to the us
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state wisconsin give me another one give me another one next we've got the democratic republic of
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congo and then the s laundry parish which is in louisiana they've both got their little panhandle
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things austria and carven island very very similar there fair enough iran and yugoslavia i definitely
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could see it piranha state brazil and romania very similar once again sweden and um in india
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And then finally Greenland and then Krasnogar... A place in Russia Hi fantasy style map of Europe Oh I like it very pretty very Lord of the Rings in it Oh it just Photoshop It still very impressive That amazing I don even know how you do that
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They've even just about included New Zealand, but only just Republic or Kingdom official names of countries not too many kingdoms left United Kingdom
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Obviously Kingdom of Norway and Kingdom of Sweden. I didn't know they were kingdoms
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I think the reds only gonna get lower over time found this globe my attic with no dates on it
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I was wondering if anyone could identify the year of this globe And then we've got a lot of little pictures of it. I wonder if anyone found out so Africa has been split into blue areas and yellow areas
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I'm a bit nervous about what these two categories are. Oh, here we go Egypt is labeled as United Arab Republic
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But Syria is not Egypt and Syria was in a union between 1958 and 1961 Egypt was officially named UAR to
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1971 though so it seems it can be dated between 1961 and 1971 also i can see equatorial guinea on
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the map i can't say 100 of it's independent but it seems like there's no spain nearby equatorial
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guinea got independence in the late 1968. is that the categories then are they saying that algeria
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hadn't got independence from france yet and that's why they're both blue maybe is that what
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the categories mean i'm guessing so oh this sounds incredible places whose name will forever be
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associated with grim historical events right i don't recognize any of the names yet but we've got
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iam in the uk so let's look into that one what happened in iam a few moments later well interesting
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i've just read a lot of stuff so basically i am this village in england got hit with the plague
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in the 16th century and ends up building a huge wall around the village to keep the infection in
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and this actually helped the people within iam and the surrounding villages and although that
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in itself sounds really rough they weren't completely abandoned by surrounding villages
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and surrounding villages kept bringing them food and stuff and it actually led to considerably
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helping with understanding how disease is passed and transferred so it isn't as horrific as i was
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expecting i was assuming i was about to read that they all got the black death and they were very
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alive or something but it wasn't that bad still not great though don't get me wrong if america
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borders were drawn by language so everyone speaks english up in most of north america apart from a
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little bit of french over in this area of canada then we've got a lot of spanish we've got portuguese
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in brazil and even a teeny tiny bit of dutch as well i baked gingerbread cookies in the shape of
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u.s congressional districts that is absolutely incredible that must just took quite a bit of
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effort because you really did nail the shape chances of getting a white christmas this year
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in america i wonder how many actually did end getting a white christmas i did not have a white
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christmas but i did have a white boxing day isn't that delightful we went for a lovely walk with
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the dogs it was great and on that cheery note i'm gonna end off this video hopefully you enjoyed
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Click that subscribe button if you did. I keep doing these mad videos every couple of weeks. And they're always quite interesting, aren't they
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