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> My science teacher once insisted rivers couldn't flow north because on a globe, north is up. Did he just not consider, say, the Nile?

• chopin 7y ago
  Or the Rhine. Maybe there is no north bound river where the GP lived?
  • macintux 7y ago
    The closest large one I’m aware of is the Maumee, and that’s a few hours away. We pointed out the Nile on the globe. Even that wasn’t convincing apparently.