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Annik Perrot 11 months ago

Mer..credi! in France because you start to say Merde! and realize there are kids around ;-))

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Did I say that out loud? (he/him)cis/het 11 months ago

This one is both fascinating and quite scary. The relatively mild climate in the British Isles is, as I understand it, heavily reliant on the Gulf Stream. If that gets messed up because of climate change, we're fűcked!

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Maps are leading us in nearly every step of our way. They are reachable to everyone - just a few presses and you can see Google or Apple Maps. But that wasn’t always the case.

The history of maps can be traced as far back as 5000 years ago. The first-ever maps were used to depict small areas in pictures. And there was no set of rules on how everything should be drawn, which made maps quite inaccurate.

Later, the map-making art was taken over by the Greeks and Romans. The most notable works of this mapping period were those of Claudius Ptolemaeus. He was a geographer, mathematician, and astronomer, who came up with longitude and latitude lines. And, well, that revolutionized European geographic thinking.

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Monstarr the Divisive 11 months ago

Ha, jokes on switzerland, the biggest, most popular and most expensive city isn't even the capital.

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Annik Perrot 11 months ago

LOL, UK and Ireland...

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Apatheist Account2 11 months ago

Milton Jones: why did I run up to doorbells and ring them, then run away? Just for the buzz...

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Then, during the middle ages, there wasn’t much progress in the map-making scene. Most of the maps that were produced during this time were of monasteries, which were influenced by religious devotion. They were heavily decorated with angels and imaginary monsters.

However, the Islamic world made some progress in the map-making area. The most notable instance is of Al-Idrisi, an Arab scholar who produced numerous world maps and geography books that heavily influenced this scientific field.

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Ellinor 11 months ago

To be honest, all French people I know think that Italians and British are the most attractive (mainly because of the accent)

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Zedrapazia 11 months ago

Switzerland is a big disappointment here

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Robert T 11 months ago

Iceland seems to have drifted into the Bay of Biscay! And a lot more people watch rugby than play in the UK - unless you include those who are forced to play it at school.

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After the Middle Ages, the invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg pushed the monasteries out of the dominance of map production. Also, the printing process becoming more available resulted in the growth of major publishing houses. And they produced maps that were accessible to everyone, no matter their financial status.

Even more, improvements in mapping were brought about by the accessibility of public learning and the thirst for knowledge. Increasingly, maps started having more colors showcasing various aspects of the presented place.

Also, in the late 1700s, thematic maps started showing up; for example, those showing the spread of certain illnesses or the extent of a flood.

Now, the maps on our phones are made by using satellite systems and surveying techniques. With these tools, cartographers can measure everything with precision, which was never achievable before. And due to their precision, maps have become an irreplaceable aspect of nearly everyone’s life.

Did you learn something new from these maps? Share your discoveries with us in the comments!

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Hugh Cookson 11 months ago

Oh Dear, if this all goes tits up, I'm pretty sure Russia will go down the pan - so then it's goodbye Belarus and Serbia.

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Alexia 11 months ago

"Russia being your neighbor" - I feel you, Ukraine.

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martymcmatrix 11 months ago (edited)

There's an eight year gap between Moscow and Madrid...

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TheGoodBoi 11 months ago

Can anyone speak any of these?

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MichelleDonut 11 months ago

Swedes grow up quick!

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Apatheist Account2 11 months ago

Not surprising, considering where olives are grown.

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Alexia 11 months ago (edited)

The percentage is higher in the Balkan countries. We just don't declare it.

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Verena 11 months ago

The red area in the Netherlands indicates the huge harbours, biggest cities and heavy industry

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Scotira 11 months ago

I was confused for a second as 7:00-8:00 is usually breakfast time 🙄🙈

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WindySwede 11 months ago

Iceland is really all over the place!

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Donald 11 months ago

The Russian balaclava is spot on lol

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TheGoodBoi 11 months ago

How I sneeze: AHHHSHIT

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Lyrica Melody 11 months ago

....yet

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Zedrapazia 11 months ago

Fun short story. Company that outsourced to Switzerland wanted to enforce their policy to have at best 50% black workers, and then got very surprised and confused why this wasn't feasibly possible

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OneHappyPuppy 11 months ago

Lowest Turkey? No one's heard of Turkish coffee?

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Hugh Cookson 11 months ago

For my country, yes ; for the cretins that run my country, no ; those people I'd rather put them in a hole in the ground and just fill it in whilst they're alive. Wars are not started by the people of a country, they are started by upstarts, despots and chancers using those people to fulfill their own deluded ambitions - think Putin and Netenyahu at the moment ; they won't win and people on both sides of their particular countries will suffer because of those two idiots unachievable delusions.

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Robert T 11 months ago

Depends on your definition of "speaks". UK schools teach foreign languages (which and whether it was compulsory varies over the years). However, they start late and are not very advanced by the time they finish. I did both French (5 years) and German (2 years) and I speak neither with any fluency.

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Jason Peugeot 11 months ago

Meanwhile in the USA it's 531...

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Lemme get the lemons 11 months ago

Heh, the little blue haired, blue eyed man

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Alexandra 11 months ago

It's something in the water that makes the average male height in the Netherlands top the other countries....

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Margaret Shannon 11 months ago

It's the protein from digested prime ministers…

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Robert T 11 months ago

It is because the country is so flat. It was an advantage to be able to see predators further away. ;-)

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CatLady 11 months ago

It's a dairy nation. High consumption of dairy = increased height. In China, when cow's milk was introduced, the average height went up 5 cm.

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Diolla 11 months ago

It's the cheese we eat.

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Edward Loopyderm 11 months ago

Survival mutation, since it's below sea level - the taller you are the more likely to survive drowning...

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rustythorn 11 months ago

less gravity up there

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Lama 11 months ago

In all seriousness: Dutch children get a lot of sleep compared to children in other countries. There's a big correlation between hours of sleep and height.

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Ricardo Ferreira 11 months ago

Yes, the threat of being drowned by sea water.

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Christophe Beunens 11 months ago

The dutch drink a lot of milk and eat a lot of cheese, both containing a lot of calcium

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amy lee 11 months ago

They also didn't send their best men to die in multiple wars in the same way the Brits/french/ Germans did.

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ChickyChicky 11 months ago

I think it's the oxygen saturation levels, being lower than sea level in some places.

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QijianSanek 11 months ago

the canals

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Apatheist Account2 11 months ago

Probably their houses...so being taller is an evolutionary protection against rising sea levels.

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SnackbarKaat 11 months ago

Females are probably the same height too

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Marinasongs1432 11 months ago

What are these in freedom units?

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Zaphod 11 months ago

6 feet tall in the Netherlands and Bosnia/H

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Lotekguy 11 months ago

I'm from the US. How many centimeters in a gallon?

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Skure 11 months ago

Why are Bosnians so tall? They are streching spine and neck looking for Germany over the hills!

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The Original Bruno 11 months ago

Correlates pretty well with nations with good basketball players (Latvia, Servia, Bosnia, Lithiana ... and Turkey? Oh well.)

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Zedrapazia 11 months ago

See, people? Those 6 foot guys the girls want (which would be a bit more than 1.80m) are NOT the norm, so don't be ashamed if you aren't

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David Paterson 11 months ago

I'm surprised at how tall Europeans are, compared to most countries outside Europe.

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Steve 11 months ago

I think we’d all rather see average male length

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Temporary Dork 11 months ago

Hungary ftw!

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Michael 11 months ago

Sexual selection at work!

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EvilNob 11 months ago

When does the point come when it switches, and the parent becomes the one who lives with the child?

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Cecilie 11 months ago

In Norway I have never once heard of a school closing because of snow! But at kindergarden the smallest children below 3 stay inside if the temperature comes below -10.

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Hugh Cookson 11 months ago

The Conservative government that threw the baby out with the bathwater by having such a dumbed down referendum really, really f****d up the future of the UK for at least a generation. I even knew expats living in Spain who voted to leave who thought a deal could be brokered to allow them unlimited access to their properties only to find out that now, under the new 'agreement' they could only go to their European places for a limited time every year and would be penalised if they exceeded their quota ..... The general British public are a thick lot at the best of times, they should never have been given a vote on something as important as leaving Europe and all that that withdrawal entailed (not that the ruling party at the time had a f*****g clue either - bloody inbred toffs with no idea )

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