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glancing at that map, an interesting (to an American mostly just cuz we think we know our own geography) trivia factoid came to mind: Q: Where in the US are yo
by fsckboy 10mo ago
glancing at that map, an interesting (to an American mostly just cuz we think we know our own geography) trivia factoid came to mind:
Q: Where in the US are you closest to Africa?
I'll explain the answer key at the bottom so you don't see them sooo readily if you want to think about it... but whatevs
an entirely different interesting factoid, the Catskill Mountains in NY State, which seem to be part of the Appalachian Range, are in fact not mountains at all. What appear to be mountains is actually erosion of a high plateau, leaving mountainous appearing hills https://static1.thetravelimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/catskills.jpg https://static1.thetravelimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/upl... (they are however connected to the Appalachians, they just aren't mountains)
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Wrong Answer: adirolf
A: eniam
I wrote the words backward
- ErroneousBosh 10mo agoBy quite a comfortable margin, too. I guess it's kind of like how Edinburgh on the east coast of the UK is quite a bit further west than Bristol on the west coast of the UK.
- fsckboy 10mo agoi didn't know that, i need to find an aerial view and similar, traversing the Panama Canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific puts you farther east.
- ErroneousBosh 9mo agoI didn't know that, but there it is, about 30km or so.
- nonameiguess 10mo agoI'm pretty sure it's the US Virgin Islands, but I guess you don't want to include territories.