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where snow has fallen since 1940
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This is a really interesting visualization because although it's pretty obvious that it's not gonna snow in, you know
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areas around the Sahara Desert and Australia, I've never thought about visualizing
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the entirety of snowfall on one map. And obviously it makes sense
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that it's only gonna fall like the top half and the bottom half and skip the middle
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with a few little exceptions creeping up towards Peru. But isn't that so fascinating
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So much of Australia hasn't had any snow in like 100 years. It basically doesn't snow in India
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It doesn't snow in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, basically all of Africa
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So much of Central America and South America. Almost makes me feel like I'm a bit privileged that I get to live somewhere where occasionally it will snow
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And I've actually had the honor of seeing it because it's very pretty. It can also be an absolute nightmare though, don't get me wrong
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New World Expeditions. Oh, this is an enhance, enhance. Okay, so Christopher Clubber's first voyage, 1492
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Uh, he hits the americas and he's like, oh my god, we need to go back and and plan this a little bit better
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A year later. He sets off on a similar route and oh he bangs into the americas again
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Imagine how mental this must have been at the time, you know, like this is such an exciting thing
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I, of course don't agree with what they did when they uh, they started invading all of the new land
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But it still must have been just crazy the fact that they've discovered that this whole other world exists
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Anyway, we're now on our fourth voyage, and it's been about 10 years, and they are continuously still exploring
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I think that's, yeah, there we go, look at that. So they just kept bumping into sort of areas around the Caribbean for a long time
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and then on the fourth voyage, they actually made it to sort of central mainland America
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and the teeny top of South America as well. Well, that's fascinating, isn't it
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And it was a 30-month-long voyage. The most recent image of Western Europe from space
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these photographs always blow my mind. I know it's incredibly obvious that the Earth looks like the maps of the Earth
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It's still a whole different ballgame actually seeing it all from a photo
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rather than it being a drawn-out map. Like, there's something mental about this. I'm in this photograph
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I was, like, down here somewhere. There's a good chance that your entire existence and your family and everyone you know
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is also in this photo if you were doing something on the 12th of August
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Like, that's mental to think about. And look how pretty it looks with all the nice little lights everywhere
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Speaking of lights are lighthouses of new england. I love a lighthouse map and now we have a spinning lighthouse map
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Can it get any better? Who's this cheeky little lonely guy up top? Oh, that's nice. I'm a big fan
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Who's flashing? Why is one of them flashing red? Some of them are red. What's that about the northeast
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Megalopolis megalopolis now that is a good word where a sixth of americans live
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So this includes washington baltimore philadelphia new york boston if you take the entirety of the united states
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This is quite a specific small region, but a sixth of the total American population are all found within this little area along the coast
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95% of ocean plastic comes from only 10 rivers. This is not something I knew
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This is really interesting. So it's mainly Asia causing a lot of plastic, and then we have two countries in Africa as well
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I mean, these rivers are absolutely ginormous. Like, they're the length of several countries each
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So it's not like there's just one area in India that's causing a load of trouble
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It's a big problem on a huge scale, but it's very sad to think about
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I think it's something that hopefully is always very, very slowly improving. I don't think fast enough
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A lot of damage is already being done, but hopefully there are people out there that are really trying to stop this from just being a continuous problem
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and also trying to sort out the mass amounts of plastic that is already out there in the oceans
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Japan, Australia and New Zealand are the biggest victims of the equal earth projection
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They have some of the most iconic country shapes, but are butchered by this projection
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Yeah, so the Makeda projection is sort of the most commonly used map projection
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but that has loads of issues. That makes areas like Greenland way too big and areas like Africa a bit too small
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But then when you use another projection like the Equal Earth projection, that curves everything that over on the right edges and causes a lot of distortion Like poor New Zealand It like that sad You know you could possibly get away with this Australia but New Zealand really kind of crammed in there at the end There is never one obvious solution to putting a flat map on something that is actually a globe without creating all kinds of inconsistencies
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But yeah, I could understand being New Zealand, being a bit upset about this one. It's like a little splodge, isn't it? You don't want to feel like your country's being splodged
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Why is the Yuxi Circle the most densely populated area? Yeah, so this circle, this area of the earth, which is about two and a half thousand miles
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is that around the edge? Is that the radius? Is that the diameter? We'll assume it's around the edge, but that feels like it should be longer
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This is home to 4.32 billion people. So basically about half the people on earth
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And that is because there are hugely populated areas like China and India, which are the top
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one and two, Hindu being number one. Obviously, there are so many historical reasons for why these areas are so populated
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Let's look at the comments and see if we've got a few interesting ones. In a word, rice
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Okay. Rice cultivation reduces a very high-end yield. High-intrusion crop that is the best stable food humans ever developed
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especially when it can be harvested almost all year round. Centuries of big families fed on rice
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creating a large population in India, China, and Southeast Asia. That's really, really interesting
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Rice. This person said rice and refused to go more into it. Genuinely, I didn't know it was a rice thing
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And rivers. And very fertile land. And people doing it a lot, obviously
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which, yeah, that makes sense to be fair. An Arctic fox walked from Norway to Canada in 76 days
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Wow, that's crazy. So started down here in Svalbard. Is it Svalbard
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No, it's Svalbard, not Blad. So that's an island at the top of Norway, but they can go all the way through this area of the Arctic Circle
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get themselves to Greenland, get themselves all the way to Canada's most northern points
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Crazy. 76 days feels like not that long for how far that is
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And it's really interesting that they're not just sticking around in one area. They're having like a right good look about
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The three power grids that run the United States. The Western Interconnection
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The Eastern Interconnection. And the ERCOT Interconnection. I don't really know much about power grids
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But I imagine that is quite impressive infrastructure. Okay. The 7,000 rivers that feed into the Mississippi
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This is really fascinating to see. That is so much riverage. There are rivers bloody everywhere
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Look at that. But yeah, just amazing to think that all of these rivers eventually connect into the Mississippi
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which mainly runs down here through the state of Mississippi. Yeah, that's mental
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That is such a huge region. Side note, I filmed another video where I guess what maps are about
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It was filmed before this one, for the record. I don't think it's out yet, but when it comes out, remember that
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I mapped Red Dead Redemption 1 and Red Dead Redemption 2 onto a real map of the USA and Mexico
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Okay, so I think what you've generally done is lined up what the fictional towns and cities are kind of inspired by
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So you've lined up St. Denise with New Orleans, and you've had to kind of stretch out the Red Dead map in order for it to all fit
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I've not played that many games, but Red Dead Redemption 2 online, I got very, very into
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And I've watched Becky play loads of the single player too. What a game that is. The most recent foreign migration destinations for young Europeans
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Okay. So, so many countries over in the East are all moving to Germany
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I presume that's primarily just for work because Germany's like a seriously booming economy with a
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presumably they think there's going to be a lot of jobs there. Really interesting that young people in the United Kingdom are moving to Australia
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I mean, I didn't migrate, but I did go there when I was 18 for like several months
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So what I count as a statistic, I can see why people go to Australia because it kind of just feels somewhat like closely culturally related to the UK
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but much nicer weather and a lot of other cool things like a nice wildlife and stuff
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But this is very interesting. A lot of places go into Switzerland. I don't know why. I know that there are good tax advantages, I think, in Switzerland
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Cyprus, Malta, Ireland go into the UK, which I guess makes sense. But also Lithuania get involved
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Fair enough. The same number of Brazilians live in each highlighted area
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Yeah, so this is pretty common for sort of populations on countries
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Uh people generally congregate along coastlines or along big rivers because historically that just made a lot of sense in terms of farming and accessibility but it creates some very interesting looking data hundreds of years later That was a nice little rhyme So you can see that not many people live in most of Brazil
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Obviously a large portion of this is the Amazon rainforest, so that makes a lot of sense. But when you think about how big this is and how specific and small this red region is
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it's very interesting to see. Germany, if people were mountains. Okay, fair enough
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So I assume this is not one person per mountain. And this is just as the population grows, the mountains get taller
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So you can see that towards the end of the 19th century
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Berlin really is really growing significantly there. Will we see it shrink at all over like the First World War
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Two million soldiers dead. Okay, so there was no census taken, which obviously makes a lot of sense
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Let's see while we get to 1939. What, anything happen with the numbers
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Towards Essen, really, really growing. Uh, 12 million germans expelled from the east. Yeah, germany's history is just crazy
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There's so much has happened in like that last hundred year period so many different things
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Uh, this is very long i'm gonna have to skip ahead to see what the latest is. All right berlin still still popping
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But I didn't know how busy it was over on this side over in the west fair enough
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Oh, I kind of don't like the look of it. It's a little bit gross looking actually, isn't it
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Nevada splints are three areas of equal population. Wow, that is a particularly striking one
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That just looks so ridiculous. I think just obviously the shape of Nevada is kind of funny looking, isn't it
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But yeah, always interesting to see. There's obviously two major cities here and then not a lot happening elsewhere
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I'm sure it looks nice though. Whoa, what is going on here? In the depths of winter, half of Australia bakes while the other half freezes at the very same moment
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This is a mental map. Like, what is going on here? Why is it so hairy
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This is such an interesting, lively feeling map. It's kind of mesmerizing as well, isn't it
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So it's during the day. This is every single day. It fluctuates, which obviously makes a lot of sense with it being so big that the sun is really gonna
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Significantly impact different parts of the country different times, but my god
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That's weird to watch so 30 degrees to 2 degrees so huge huge differences
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Wow, I can't stop looking at it where you need to pump gas by yourself. This is really interesting
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So basically all of the usa and canada you put your own petrol in your cars
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Which is what it's like in the uk as well, but right here and right over here. They'll do it for you
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Someone's just stood there by the pump and they just grab it out of the thing and they just shove it in your car
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That's weird to me, I'm not gonna lie. So it's New Jersey, USA and Richmond in Canada
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Self-service is usually not done. Workers at the gas station will pump instead as part of the service
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Thank you? But it's just not necessary, isn't it? Get out of your car, walk like a meter and put your own gas in
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It's very inefficient. This is really interesting. The spread of rose rings parakeets across Europe
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So they are extremely common to the point of overpopulation in southern England
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specifically around London. I have seen them flying in great hordes around London. As far as I know
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they were basically just like escaped pets that have then just bred like mad. But there are a lot
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of parks in London where you can see these green parakeets, which look amazing. They're so loud as
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well. And it just feels still so alien to see them in the UK. But I didn't realize that they were also
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spreading around areas, like a lot of Europe actually. So given that it's black here in Belgium
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and the Netherlands, did they start in London and that they've managed to make it over the channel
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The earliest sightings of these modern parakeets was Norfolk, England, 1855. But yeah, they all derived from escaped pets
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But it's crazy how well they're doing, considering they are native to Africa
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I wonder if in, like, another hundred years, they'll just be a normal part of European culture
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Or I wonder if they're gonna start trying to, like, crank down on them. I don't know
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Trading partners of South America. So, in the year 2000, 26 years ago, the USA was the main trading partner of every single country in South America
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but now in 2024, China is taking over, just like pretty much everywhere else, to be fair
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China, just no one else can compete. The Roman Empire at its greatest extent overlaid on North America
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So this is when the Roman Empire was at its biggest, and you can see that compared with the US, it's kind of the same size
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is what you would kind of average out there if you were to try and cram it all into the same spot
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What we basically learning here is that the Mediterranean Sea is a similar width to the USA billion worth of American trade flows through the Welland C every day That is mental Like that is such a colossally large number What is it just this This little c
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So much American trade just, like, pops through. That's, that's crazy. $28 billion a day. Oh
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no, a year. I was reading it as a day. A year makes a lot more sense. You can see why I was
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like, that's ridiculous. Australia is massive. Eight-hour drive range from Sydney. So, if you
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started in Sydney in eight hours, you could potentially get as far as here, which is not
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really even close to denting the scale of Australia. Yeah, Australia is so much bigger
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than you think. You can't really comprehend how big it is. When we traveled up the East Coast in
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Australia, we basically were on a little bus overnight. So it was unbelievably helpful because
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obviously you could you could do eight hours and hopefully for the most part, you could sleep
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There was one time where like someone was was car sick and I could just spell sick for eight hours
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I'll not talk about that right now. Ooh, this is interesting. Nations where an official language uses a script developed within their borders
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So, for example, the United Kingdom, their text, their script is derived from Latin
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which was developed down here. And pretty much all the other European countries also use Latin
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So, it is quite an interesting one to see that there are not that many countries that actually use, like, their own scripts
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So, obviously, Mandarin. It might not even be called Mandarin. Mandarin is just the modern language
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I don't know if that's the name of the actual script. but the script that China uses was developed largely in China, same with areas like South
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Korea and Japan, and then Arabic lettering down here as well. But yeah, that's a lot of red. It's
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very interesting. The most popular GTA series. So GTA V is most popular in more or less everywhere
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but what's fascinating is that Vice City is the most popular GTA version in China. There must be
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a really obvious reason for that. And then San Andreas is really popular in South America and
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like a few areas around Eastern Europe and Africa, you'd kind of just assume that GTA 5 would be the
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most popular everywhere. Let's get some more info in the comments. The comments don't help. The comments are not giving me what I want to know. Vice City just became popular in China due to
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lots of things like internet cafe culture, distribution of pirated discs, low hardware
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requirements. I suppose maybe it's not so much that Vice City is really popular in China, it might be
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that GTA 5 wasn't necessarily allowed to become popular. Yeah, it's literally banned and unavailable
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to be sold. So we've worked that one out. Europe during the last ice age. So we've gone back 22,000
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years and wow. So there was just ice completely. Oh, actually London's all the way down here. I was
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assuming the United Kingdom was up here, but it's actually still all connected to the rest of Europe
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at this point in time. What is going on? This is crazy. Still so much ice. Ice over Manchester
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Look at that. Is this Minecraft? It looks like Minecraft. Wow. Look at that. Look at us all
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squashed next to each other. Still so much ice in Scotland. Makes sense. I was in this very specific
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area of Scotland just a week ago, and there was a lot of signs of glacial activity. I'm telling
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you. And now it all bloody makes sense, doesn't it? Every train in the UK last Wednesday, actual
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recorded movements, delays, freight specials, and all. Ah, that's so interesting. So this is at like
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4am. So it's going to be a lot of like transport vehicles rather than like pedestrian transport
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but wait for it to all wake up. It's going to start getting busy. It's 8 o'clock in the morning. So much activity outside of London
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Activity around Scotland, around the coasts, around the north, the south, Birmingham, Midlands
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Manchester, Leeds, they're all getting involved. So how many trains do we think
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there's actually going to be totaling one day? I honestly did not expect it to be in the thousands
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I would have guessed like upper 900s, but I wouldn't have gone over a thousand
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for just like one singular day. But I suppose this is such a mixture of like massive trains that go from like King's Cross up to Edinburgh
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and then like really specific tiny little trains. That's so, so interesting
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So the most trains at once was at about 9am. No, 8am, which makes sense because you've got all the commuters, I suppose
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What an amazing piece of data. Should we leave it there? I reckon we should. We've had some particularly good maps
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