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Maps that are Insightful
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Apr 2, 2025
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Maps that are insightful
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A lovely overview of the approximate limits of the world known to the Romans around 150 AD
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That's so interesting, isn't it? Like, they had no idea just how massive Asia and Africa actually were
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They didn't even know what was happening in Finland. That's mental. And at least with those continents, they kind of knew that there was land that was unexplored
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But I bet they couldn't have even imagined the Americas. Piracy in the 21st century
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Right, enhance, enhance. So generally these days, not much piracy. By piracy, we mean like people on boats, stealing stuff from other boats, like proper pirate stuff
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Basically, total low risk in North America, Europe, most of Asia. But there's still some dangerous areas, particularly Horn of Africa
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I know that Somali pirates are quite famous worldwide. But apparently, there's more trouble in the Gulf of Guinea
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43% of attacks, and then straight of Malacca, down in Indonesia, Malaysia area
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Interesting, you won't catch me paddling about down there, that's for sure. Every mountain, building, and tree shadow in the world simulated for any date and time
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Oh my god, this looks incredible. Right, there's a URL. Okay, we're near me
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Let's just zoom in on the Peak District. So this is the shadows literally as I'm recording
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But I can grab this and... Oh, that's so satisfying. It's when you get to, like, sunset and it just really goes for it
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Okay, let's go to London. Let's, like, zoom in on Big Ben. Right, this is midnight
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But look at this. I go to like 7 p.m. and oh look it's Big Ben's shadow. That is incredible. Oh my god. I encourage
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you to have a look at this website and try it with your own house. I'll probably resist doing
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that in the video. True signs of Africa. Comparison of Africa's land area to selected countries slash
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regions. So the entirety of Russia fits from north to south in Africa. That's mental but you know
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they're both pretty big. But what's kind of crazy is how small the U.S. looks. Like all of U.S
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including alaska fits very very spaciously within africa china another massive country kind of not
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really dent in the top half of the country this is insane look how teeny tiny india looks and
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obviously india's most populated country in the world more people live in india than the entire
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continent of africa but it's not taking up that much space but it's neatly squeezing itself into
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the horn of africa don't mind if i do now this point you know i love fun facts about countries
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like for example did you know that saint lucia is the only country in the world named after a real
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woman. But don't you think it's a shame that there isn't something like a website where you could put
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all of these fun facts about countries into one place? This sounds like a job for Odoo! Jack
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example of my country fun facts page i bet you didn't know that france's longest border is
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Policies killed in Mexico since the start of 2024 See this is insightful cause I have no clue what happening in Mexico but clearly there is some dodgy stuff happening 38 politicians killed in the last six months This is terrible The Alps hand by myself in Tolkien style
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Please suggest any improvements. That's so epic. Let's get it enhanced, enhanced
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Oh, we really can enhance, enhanced. So it's like a Middle Earth map, but we've got Switzerland here
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and we've got the Alps around here before we get to Italy. Oh, this looks really, really cool, doesn't it
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Look at the Mediterranean down the bottom. there's corsica liguarian sea i did not know that was the name of that sea gulf of lions i'm learning
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so much i don't know the names of any of these places but the map has been drawn really really
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nicely it looks epic i love the actual alps region it looks really really cool countries that had
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people displayed in zoos i've seen this one before and it's just a site every single time
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we can see that many countries including the one that i'm from had at some point in history
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displayed black people, Chinese, Koreans, Native Americans, Indians, and Polynesians on display in
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cages as if they were animals. This is just horrendous. Speaking of racism, we've got a comic
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map of Europe from 1871, so I'm sure there'll just be lots of kind of very old stereotypes here. It's
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a nice piece of art. I'm sure it's deeply offensive. Why did France get a three-headed dragon? That's
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incredible. And I like the little crocodile with the hat over in, where are we there? Turkey, maybe
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Front and rear car plate registration laws. Yeah, many states in the US
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you don't need to have your registration plate on the front. And I'm really jealous about that
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because my car would look so much cooler if it didn't have the registration plate on the front
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But alas, what can I do? The UK likes to be really boring with all of their laws
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It makes total sense, but I could still be bad about it. Average speed of trains in Europe
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Go on, we'll do a little enhance in hands. I always forget just how mentally fast trains are, you know
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Like 134 kilometers per hour. Why is that in miles per hour
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It's 83 miles per hour. That's actually not that quick. I thought it would be still like 100
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But I suppose this is just the average rather than the top speed. Whoa, check out France and Spain
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Nearly 200 kilometers per hour. Those are some efficient trains. Who's slowest though? Looks like it's little Albania
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27 miles per hour. I could run faster than their trains. I couldn't. I actually really couldn't
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Whoa, population changes in Britain between 1821 and 2019. This gives me an opportunity to correct a mistake I made in a previous video
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So you can see 200 years ago, Ireland had a population of 6.8 million
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And for every other territory on this map, the numbers have increased pretty significantly
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Mainly with England going from just 10 million to 56 million. Whereas for Ireland, it's gone down
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If you're including Northern Ireland, it's actually the same number. But that means the population in that area hasn't grown in 200 years
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And this was largely due to how many people died in a famine
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That was mainly England's fault. That is awful. And I apologize for not talking about it before
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But yeah, look at that England increase 56 million. No wonder it is busy every single time I go on the motorway
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I can't move. I'm sick of it approximate statistics on the number of executions for witchcraft in various regions of Europe between
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1450 and 1750 I have never seen a map about this That's really interesting
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But also just really sad when you think about all of the poor innocent women that men just wanted an excuse to drown
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It turns out in kind of middle Europe modern-day Germany Poland area. There was a lot of witch
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Executions over ten times higher than any of these other regions That absolutely crazy This is quite an interesting comment in areas like Spain Believing in witchcraft was also against the most popular religion So if you accuse someone of being a witch that means you accepting that witches are a thing and therefore you are also in trouble as well Countries where
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teaching evolution is either banned and or restricted. I have no idea about this. Areas like
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Algeria just don't teach evolution in schools at all. That's mad. In areas such as Egypt, it is
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taught but it's presented as unproven even though i mean it's clearly proven saudi arabia also
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totally banned that's crazy i just don't understand how it can't be accepted i mean there's like
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dinosaur bones all over the place the crazy world tour that was joss stone's total world tour oh my
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god that's insane so normally when musicians announce a world tour it basically means that
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they're going to europe usa and australia but this english singer joss stone she went everywhere
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she went to like every country in africa that's mad just expressed her intent to promote in every
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country thus embarking on a total world tour she needs a guinness world record for this that is
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absolutely crazy like what a feat you can see that she wasn't able to play in iran and that's
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because she planned to but she was deported from the country due to restrictions on female singers
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leading public performances which i mean that's ridiculous isn't it but wow that's amazing how
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many countries she managed to visit i'm incredibly impressed the world divided into eight regions
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with one billion people each this is always just very interesting isn't it i always think it's
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It's surprising the Americas aren't split into two, you know, with it being such a massive region
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But I know that it is basically like USA, Mexico, Brazil. Europe gets to be separated quite well
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Obviously, the main thing is it just shows how many people live on the east side of China and within India
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Just absolutely crazy numbers. I know, by the way, that that's not just India. There's probably like Pakistan shoved in there as well
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But I'm just meaning India's known for literally being the most populated country anyway
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The crested porcupine has the strangest distribution map of any species I've ever seen
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I don't even know what a crested porcupine is. Ah, it's just like your standard porcupine
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There is a strange distribution map. Obviously, it makes sense for them to be found within this region of Africa
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But then how did they end up on the other side of the Sahara and throughout all of Italy but nowhere else in Europe
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The Sahara drying basically restricted it to the fringes, so that makes sense
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But then the Romans brought it to Italy for fun. Ah, so Romans imported them over
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and then they must have actually just ended up doing their own thing. Toys R Us stores in the United States from 1957 to 2020
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My God, by the 80s, they were popping up everywhere. Look at that
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That's absolutely crazy. I assume the number's gonna keep going. When do you think we'll see a decline
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Maybe 2010? So we're on 860 stores at the moment. It's 2016
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The number's still going up. Oh, I think it did go down very quickly at the end, but it was just so recent that we don't get to see it
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Well, France and England have almost the same number of population, but England is four times smaller than metropolitan France
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Yeah, I know it isn't like India or whatever, but England does feel pretty cramped in the urban areas anyway
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It shouldn't feel cramped though, it's just that things like our roads and healthcare just need way more funding
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How far are you from India using India as scale? Well, if you're in India, you're obviously in India
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But if you're in the red region, you're one India away from India. If you're in the orange region, you're two Indias away from India, which is apparently me
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I'm only two Indias away from India. It splits through the middle, but I'm definitely in the orange bit
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I'm only two Indias away from India! Let me just have a look at this
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Ooh yeah look at this Look at how much the projection changes as we move more north Yeah I guess I am only one India away from India if you were to imagine these tilted to the most efficient angle So the complete other side of the earth is only five Indias away from India
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That's kind of mental, you know. Some of China's most important companies and brands
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and the region slash province where they originated from. Okay, let's see what companies we recognize that we didn't know were Chinese
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Oh my God! I was about to go crazy. I thought that said Tesco, which is my like local supermarket
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It was about to blow my mind if Tesco was Chinese. Right, there's going to be so many products that I have used in my life
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that I do not know were produced by one of these companies. But it'll be interesting to see what companies are big enough over here
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that I actually recognize. Alibaba, obviously I've heard of. I don't think I've ever bought anything from Alibaba
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but it is a pretty massive kind of bulk shopping site. GMC, yeah, they do like audio products, don't they
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Yeah, I think my speakers are made by GMC. OnePlus, Becky's old phone
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That was a one plus and hisense. So I've definitely used hisense my fridge. My fridge was made by hisense
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Sorry guys. I got really excited there. I'm not quite sure why the deadly geography of mount everest
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Oh my god So one flag equals one body one person that has died in that location because generally the bodies end up being left there
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Because they're just too difficult to get down. I'm not going to mount everest. I'm fine. Thank you
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I could stretch to kilimanjaro, but that's about as high as i'm going So you can see there's a huge increase in the amount of people that die past 8,000 meters
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and that is because the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere is insufficient to sustain human life
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So an extended stay in the zone without extra oxygen being provided to you will result in you dying
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Yeah, Mount Everest is no joke, not to be taken lightly. Hours of daylight throughout the year
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Oh, that's so interesting to visualize. You can see how much smaller and smaller it's getting, but then it starts growing back again by April
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Okay, so longest day of the year is June 21st, which is like, oh, I paused it on my birthday
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Guys, it's my birthday the day after this video comes out. So maybe you could subscribe
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That would be really nice. Thank you. That would be such a lovely gift. Anyway, this is really cool to see
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And then obviously after the longest day of the year, it starts sort of shrinking back down again
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And my God, it feels like the winters are so much longer than the summers
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I don't know if anyone else thinks that. I reckon basically everyone also kind of agrees with that
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That's so cool to visualize though. Copyright term length worldwide. This is always mad to me
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because I only learnt within the last couple of years that, like, previously copyrighted stuff
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just becomes free game after it's been around for a certain amount of time
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Winnie the Pooh, for example. So the original author died, so then add on 70 years
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It's now copyright free. And before you know it, there's a Winnie the Pooh horror movie
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What? And this is for individuals, but for companies in the UK, at least, it's about 100 years
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So Steamboat Willie, the first thing that Disney put together, that is now copyright free too
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Oh, this is just Europe as well. So we can see is it any different in Africa? It's not much different
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It's a little bit longer for some areas like Equatorial Guinea. This is so interesting
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I mean, I guess it's a good thing though, isn't it? Because it prevents just monopolies for the rest of time Asia
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It's about the same as well, you know, 70 to 50 years. Oh, we have 100 years in Mexico
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Okay, 70 years for the rest of North America and then Oceania about the same as well
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So it's good to see that everywhere's kind of got the same thoughts, but it's so interesting like throughout
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our lifetime there's gonna be so many other things that just become public domain and i'm excited to
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see what people do with that anyway thank you very much for watching hopefully they did enjoy please do subscribe if you haven't already at least for my birthday come on guys and i'll see you later bye
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