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These places have the same population size
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We've got Canada, which is massive. We've got California, which is pretty big
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but it's a lot smaller than Canada. And then we have greater Tokyo area
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You can barely even see the dinky little fella. That's crazy. 37 million people, all in that teeny tiny little spot
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Amazing to think about. I made a map of the United States using actual soil from all 50 states
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That is my kind of thing. That's actually unbelievable. Oh my God, I'm getting in there
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Oh, that's beautiful. I want to do this so bad. That has got to be one of the most unbelievably satisfying things to slowly put together
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Have a lovely little travel about. Pick up a bit of dirt. Shove it in your nice little wooden thing and away you go
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Oh, it's amazing. And also very interesting to see the variations, isn't it
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I'd get in my own head about it though. That's the trouble. I'd start like overthinking which bit of dirt to grab
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Wisconsin's bald eagle nests. 1974 versus 2019. Very nice to see. We can see that the bald eagle population has greatly increased
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They're all over Wisconsin these days. You can't move for them, some might say
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Cyprus is just an aerodynamic version of the USA. Do you know what
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I can see what you're on about. Look, there's the little dip there for Texas
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They've got the little dip here for Florida. They've got all of this main area up here
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I guess we're missing this area around the Great Lakes, though there's not really anything comparable
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But I suppose we've got this bit over here, which is what makes it aerodynamic, which is the point that they're trying to make
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Okay, fair enough. The Sahara today versus 8,000 years ago. But, ooh
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So, a lot of lakes. Look at that. Who gets to name the lakes from, like, a lake 8,000 years ago
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Who picked Lake Arnest? That's what I want to know. It's really fascinating to think about, though, isn't it
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There's actual just foliage kicking about those lakes. There'll be animals doing things
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Humans? It's only 8,000 years. Imagine what lies underneath the sand. Ah, tell me about it
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More sand. Okay. Countries that have won the FIFA World Cup are updated as well
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I did a video where I was trying to guess what maps were about. and I foolishly got this one wrong
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It's so obvious. What a storyline for England, though. They invented football, won in 1966
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and then have been trying to get it back since then. That's crazy. Yoga to guns access in the United States
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Oh, I'm sorry, what? State by state gun ownership and yoga interest
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I'm going to need an explanation. So yoga interest is up this way
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and then gun ownership is over here. So Hawaii, for example, they love their yoga
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and they're not interested in guns. Oklahoma on the other end don't give a shit about yoga
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but they love a gun. Whereas Vermont, they love their yoga and they're pretty inside guns as well
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Cities that the Romans founded outside of Italy. Do you know what? They founded quite a lot of
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cities. Tons of cities in England. Isn't that crazy to look at? On July 8th at 11.15 UTC
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99% of humanity is experiencing daylight savings simultaneously. Oh, that's so cool. And I missed
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it. I would have been well up for seeing that. I mean, I don't know what I'd see. It'd just be
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sunny outside I guess. But still amazing, look at that 99% of world's population. So basically
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excluding New Zealand, Australia, Papua New Guinea, a bit of Indonesia. It's fascinating
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when you think about big old sun and the globe just lined up just right Flixbus services in Europe as of 2026 What Flixbus It just a bus company Is this an advert for Flixbus Oh if I had a Flixbus sponsorship oh that would have been perfect
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That would have been fantastic. But alas, I do not. Well, it turns out that Flixbus will take you all over Europe
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for a reasonable price, I assume. Shortest driving route through all 48 contiguous US states
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I wonder if this is what the dirt guy used. It's a very long time though. It's mad how you look at that and you would think
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you're missing all of these down here, but you're really not. you're just tatering you're just like sneaking in you're being efficient about it you're squeezing
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in everywhere just around a lot of borders even if it's most efficient i don't know if it's
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necessarily the most fun feel like you're gonna be missing a lot and you're just in between a lot
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of places history of literacy in greece and turkey so go back about 100 years 11 of turkey
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were able to actually read and write which is crazy to think about very very low much higher
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over in greece but then turkey they've been absolutely on it and over the next 100 years
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Look at that, they've caught right up. 97% and 99% for Greece
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So great to see those numbers going up. Great to see lots of people being literate because, you know, it's pretty important
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Get a lot out of it. Imagine if I'm just looking at these maps and I couldn't tell you what they're about. US rivers drawn in proportion of how much water they carry
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Is this the Mississippi River? I assume it is. Yeah, yeah, it is. There he is. Look, you don't even see the little fella on the map
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Look at that, he's teeny tiny. But I'll tell you what, he's flowing. That's right, yep
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These are seven of the eight teams that are currently remaining in the World Cup
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Oh, it's interesting that, isn't it? How fascinating that they're all on such a specific little angle
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What's that about? What's the historic reasons for such things? Is it pure coincidence
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I guess there's logic to football just spreading from where it came, but it could spread in every direction rather than this specific angle
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I think it's just coincidence, but it's kind of cool looking. July 23rd, 2026 officially broke the record for the busiest day of air traffic in all of human history
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Whoa, look at that. Wow, great quality image. That is mental to visualize, though
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Look at that. And it's, I love seeing everyone following the specific routes as well
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Like everyone just going very carefully over this spot. Who's this fella
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Where are they off? I want to know where they're going. I want to go up here as well. I think it'd be cool to go, you know, really far
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Like where, where are they? Get me up there. I'll go to Siberia. Range of palm trees across the world
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Ooh, do you know, that is very useful for an avid geoguessor player such as myself
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Because we can see that if it's US and there's palm trees, there's only really a specific bottom section that I should be going
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And also Australia as well. That is a large anti-palm tree gap
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I'm always clicking here for Australia. I need to stop doing that if there's palm trees knocking about
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Doesn't narrow down Africa though, it turns out, which is surprising. Only one country separates Norway and North Korea
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How did Russia get as big and long as it is? That's like, nothing comes close to it
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It's kind of crazy, isn't it? But yeah, tippy-top of Norway does border Russia
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And thus, it's only one country away from North Korea, which is like half the world away
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Crazy to think about. shortest slash fastest road trip visiting all EU countries
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Ooh, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle. That's handy that you can go around this way
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So it's all EU countries, hence why Switzerland is getting left out, which is sad
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How long would this take then? 10,000 kilometers. Whoa 135 hours of driving staying inside the speed limit and using a van full of supplies Well that very specific That allow us to visit 27 countries well within six days But obviously that doesn include sleeping and actually visiting the countries So I probably give that one a miss Thank you
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though. Thanks for asking. Australia's Highway 1 is the world's longest national highway. This is
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another one that drives me around the bend, right? Because I'm in Geogesa. I found Australia. The sign
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says I'm on the 1 road. So I get really excited. I find the 1 down here. I click and it's over in
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bloody poor headland. Little known fact, Poland hadn't been discovered yet when Windows XP
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launched in 2001. Why have they forgot to put Poland on the map? How did that happen? It's
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because of a glitch involving time zones. In the 1990s until the early 2000s, the different versions
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of Microsoft Windows had an interactive world map that the computer users could use to select
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their time zone. Countries of each time zone would then show up on screen. All right, so it's because
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in the 80s and 90s, Poland wanted their own time zone as opposed to like the rest of surrounding
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Europe. So the Windows XP devs had to like manually include it, but then Poland scrapped it
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but the XP developers forgot to update things. So it's just completely skipped out on this image
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which is so funny looking. Canada versus Europe latitude. Oh yeah. I never get tired of looking at
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this kind of thing. So Vancouver is pretty much parallel with Paris. And as I've said before
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you think of places like Vancouver, Canada as being so much more northerly than almost all of
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Europe, but it's really not. This is the Southern most part of Canada and we're in Rome. It lines up
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with rome you're just thinking like north america and europe being like this but it's really not
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where wolves live a lot of wolves in europe surprisingly high like so many countries there
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no wolves at all in the uk which is sad i'd be happy to see some wolves knocking about i think
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that'd be cool and really very few wolves in france as well fun fact alaska is closer to three
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foreign capitals than to washington dc that just it just doesn't sound right does it but obviously
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it is you just really wouldn't think that alaska is closer to tokyo and rekovic compared to
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washington which it only feels like it's down here that's crazy iceland's one thing because
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you're kind of like bypassing over the top of the world a bit but tokyo the spill house projection
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is one of the most interesting ones to map the world's oceans oh i love seeing this so this is
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just concentrating on ocean as opposed to land mass so if you look carefully you can see obviously
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you've got africa and europe here but your eyes aren't drawn to it your eyes are drawn to the big
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fat juicy oceans and it just shows you how ginormous the pacific ocean is which is just crazy look at
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that. Is that Australian? Yeah, of course it is. The angles are just so wacky on this projection
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It's so different to what you used to. Look, there's Antarctica. What's Antarctica doing over
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there? No, that's not Antarctica. This is Antarctica. Is it Russia then? I'm so lost. Help
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Oh my God, that's chilly. Look at it curving around. It actually looks fat for once. So Argentina's
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like here, Brazil's here, and then this is curving over towards top of South America. We've got like
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Colombia. Oh, it's so confusing, but I love it. Europe's currencies before the euro. Wow. I really
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would not have been able to name many of these at all, other than maybe franc. To be honest
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I could probably only name pound. I don't think I'd have been able to tell you any. Drachma. Oh
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drachma, I always think sounds so cool. Croon, Latz, Littas, Marker, Gilda, Mark, Frank, Frank
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Frank Pesetta Escudo Kuna Tola Shilling Karuna Mark back again Hello Mark And Lev Wow Oh pound Little cheeky pound down the bottom in Cyprus european gold medals at international olympians ah come on iceland get your head together make an effort iceland
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russia's got 398 iceland should serbia join the eu country's support for the opening of cluster
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three negotiations a lot of people are up for serbia joining few countries certainly out though
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i as someone that knows nothing about serbia and their um historical and political relations to the
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the rest of Europe say, yeah, let him in. Go on. The more the merrier. The 10 oldest continuously
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inhabited cities in the world, Damascus, Jericho, Diorbacchia. I'm going to leave it there, I think
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Fascinating. Look at that. Birth of civilization around the Middle East area. How old's Damascus
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Is it like 9,000 years or something? 10,000 to 11,000 years. That's just crazy, isn't it? Wow
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Where Trump's approval ratings stand in each state after 18 months. Okay, so generally speaking
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It's not looking great for old Trump, which I think is good news considering he is mental
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Where America's trees actually grow. As a geo-guesser player such as myself, this is very useful because I'm always clicking here
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but I will try and avoid that if there's trees. If there's trees, I'm going over this side
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That's the plan. Leading cause of death in Europe. All right, we've got cancers and cardiovascular diseases
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Can we keep it light, guys? I'm trying to make a fun YouTube video
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Map showcasing the race classification of Europeans according to Benjamin Franklin. I've never seen this before
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So white is literally just England, not even Scotland. All right, Benjamin
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Tony, that's an owl, isn't it? How European countries' names are pronounced by the Japanese
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Oh, I am about to butcher this pronunciation so badly, but here we go
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So in the United Kingdom, they say Igarusu. The Netherlands is called Aranda
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Belgium is called Berugi. France is Foransu. Spain is Supine. Portugal is Portogaru
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Ireland is Eruando. Iceland is Aesarando. Norway is Norue. Sweden is Sweden
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Finland is Finrando. Russia is Russia. Estonia is Estonia. Lavia is Ratobia
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Lithuania is Ritonia. Belarus is Berarushi. Ukraine is Ukureina. Poland is Porando
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Germany is Doitsu. Czechia is Checo. Austria is Ustoria. Slovakia is Surabakia
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Romania is Romania. Bulgaria is Borugaria. You know, they're all quite close
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Turkey is Toruku. Greece is Girishah. Italy is Italia. I can't really be bothered to name anymore
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So Rubia, we'll leave it there. Where are men and women? Most likely to be friends. Okay, so..
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Oh my God, we're moving. Where are we going? All right, well, fair enough
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Ocean currents. This map splits up the globe to present the oceans as a single body of water
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, we know that. giving a simplified view of the major warm surface currents and cold deeper currents
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Ah, so we can see the general just like, so it's like
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and then it's like, it gets a bit chilly, it's like, and then it warms back up
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Ah, that's unreal. I like that a lot. All right, on that note, we're going to end off this video
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