don't forget the inventor of insulin sold the patent for one dollar because he thought free healthcare was important

Wow, I'm North American, and have never seen the other kinds of tally marks until today!!! Neat!

Are there no cross breeds? In Zoos maybe? How do they look? I‘m too curious now. Wish I could make stuff like that my work and be paid for it.

This is quite beautiful

Never realized this! Very cool

they all look so cool!

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Do better USA.

North America got cheated!

Oh look NZ - you exist....as part of Australia🤗

Penguin can be found in Gotham City also. Source - DC Comics

Australian - Base: crumbly (biscuit/butter) Cheese: cream cheese ~ Texture/Flavour: - sooth and rich

Sorry, I may be biased to the ones I'm most familiar with, but I always love North American wall sockets for their "expression" (looking like a shocked/surprised face) 😲

Which ones hurt the most to stand on? I think our Aussie ones are a top contender because of it's angles!

The US one looks equally shocked and angry.

Italy has the "two holes next to each other", too sometimes.

Several other countries use the UK socket, like Ireland, UAE and many others.

I'm regularly horrified when I travel internationally or see infographics like this and remember that other countries really just... don't use the same plugs and outlets I'm used to. It's such a random little thing.

Uk plugs are considered the safest in the world because we have a shutter mechanism that prevents anything except a plug from reaching any live wires.

Incorrect, Israel uses the EU Standard 2 hole outlets otherwise known as Type C for most things. That specific outlet is called a a type H outlet for 16amp/250V grounded (very specific uses) which is only used by Israel and the Palestinians. However since 1989, all Type H outlets must also be Type C compatible with a rounded part in the center of each line, so this picture of an old outlet. Israel also uses type M too. But this is not just Israel, but also the Palestinian Authority territories, because when Israel captured Gaza from Egypt and the West Bank from Jordan in 1967, most houses did not have electricity (less than 12% in Gaza and only about 25% in the West Bank, nearly unchanged from when the British left in 1948). So by the time of the Oslo Accords in 1993, Israel had built a full electric infrastructure with 97% in Gaza and 94% in the West Wank with electricity, so Israel used their standards, and to today the Palestinians use the same mix of Types C, H, and M

Happy Denmark

This isn’t showing the switch that always comes with a UK plug socket.

The British one is missing the switch. This particular one would be used underneath a countertop for washing machine, etc, with a separate fused switch above.

Taiwan has the same plugs and voltages as North America.

....why did I look for the flag to identify mine. Lol

So Ireland isn't a country anymore?

Try accidently stepping on a UK plug barefoot....worse than Lego!!

I can't remember when the change was done but in Canada, probably in the U.S.A. too, the sockets used to look like a smiley face; it was attracting many children too.

The Danish one looks the happiest

Ireland has the same plug socket as the UK as well.

The Australian ones are by far the safest. They have a switch and it is impossible to out the cord in wrong.

Italian is smaller, same dimension of Switzerland. And the Brazilian one is different, with the central pin less out of axis.

Europa. I can stick it in whichever way I want

Norway just chilling in the corner

I see New Zealand is on the move again.