If you’re the type who is prone to existential crises, I do not doubt that you must have marveled at how small and insignificant you are on the scale of the Earth. There’s nothing quite as trippy as looking at a world map and realizing that you are a tiny speck upon a slightly less …
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Top 24 Things Americans Do That Other Countries Find Weird
Home of the brave, land that I love, my country ‘tis of thee sweet land of liberty… In other words, hi there, I am American. We have earned ourselves quite the reputation, but let’s put all the obvious things aside for a moment, and take a look at the more humoristic side of things. Why …
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20+ People Expose the Cheapest and Riskiest Alcoholic Drinks in Their Country
I’m not a hugeee drinker, but something about this thread is so enticing. Given the 4.5k upvotes on the r/askreddit thread, I’m clearly not the only one who thought so too. So, one user hopped on over to Reddit to start a thread asking, «What’s the most drunk per dollar product available in your country …
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Redditors Share ‘Normal Things’ That Are Actually Illegal Where They’re From
I’m sure that not many people can say, hand on heart, that they’ve never truly broken the law. The mere act of living life can end up with anybody on the wrong side of the authorities, punishment or not. If you own a car, it’s inevitable that you will have strayed a couple of miles …
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People Share the Countries They Believe Have the Most Average Cuisine
For many people of different nationalities, food is a point of national pride. It doesn’t matter what anybody else thinks about it (until they trash it to our face, of course). So many of us are so invested in our local cuisines that that the argument of which ones are the best is something of …
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A Fluttering Of Flag Memes in Celebration of Flag Day
The hundreds of countries that exist in the world vary on many counts, but the one thing that unites them all is that each one is represented by a flag. When most people think about other nationalities, the flags that represent them are not usually the first thing that springs to mind. Nonetheless, when it …
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A Fluttering Of Flag Memes For Dedicated Vexillologists
The hundreds of countries that exist in the world vary on many counts, but the one thing that unites them all is that each one is represented by a flag. When most people think about other nationalities, the flags that represent them are not usually the first thing that springs to mind. Nonetheless, when it …
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Disappointed Tourists Share The Most Overrated Places To Visit
What with most of us having limited spare time and money to spend gallivanting around the world, where we choose to take our vacations is a more important choice than first meets the eye. Whether you’re just going on a simple day trip or you’re splashing thousands of dollars on the break of a lifetime, …
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Strange And Interesting International Borders That Bring A Literal Side To Geography
When the world first came into being, there was no such thing as maps, or the convoluted squiggly lines on them that denote different countries. Then, humans came around and decided to make things complicated. There are hundreds of different borders across the world, some of which are unique in how they split different places. …
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15+ Strange And Useless Maps That Laugh In The Face Of Cartography
Drawing a map is as much an art as it is a science. No-one’s going to care where all those countries are unless they look pretty, but it’s also important to put things in the right place, too. We can learn a lot from studying maps, not all of it especially useful — as these …
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