Another 10 Solid Minutes of Geography & Culture Facts

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Welcome to another 10 solid minutes of Geography & Culture facts. Let’s jump right into it. The world’s shortest international bridge stretches just over 10 feet or 3.2 meters from Spain to Portugal...
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@GeographyGeek 2 жыл бұрын

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@carlosrivas1629 Жыл бұрын

Nelson Mandela was a terrorist and his wife is worse, the whites landed there first and African so called natives came in afterward to take advantage.

@carlosrivas1629 Жыл бұрын

South Africa was untouched before Boar white folks made the land grow.

@concept5631 Жыл бұрын

Just want you to know I appreciate that you called Taiwan a country.

@GeographyGeek Жыл бұрын

@@concept5631 😁

@concept5631 Жыл бұрын

@@GeographyGeek 👍

@holidayonion 2 жыл бұрын

In Maine: The word “Sebago” in Sebago Lake is taken from the local native word meaning “Big Lake.” This means that Sebago Lake means Big Lake Lake and Little Sebago Lake is Little Big Lake Lake.

@sheepdavis Жыл бұрын

Maine rocks

@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music 11 ай бұрын

Sahara literally means desert.

@efisgpr 9 ай бұрын

😂cool Reminds me of the La Brea tar pits = the the tar tar pits

@ice_man81 Жыл бұрын

Australia being wider than the moon is crazy. I can imagine seeing Australia in space.

@concept5631 Жыл бұрын

Dear God. *_The terror._*

@johnlagoss5932 Жыл бұрын

It wouldn't make it any more dangerous

@bremya Жыл бұрын

pls no, the spiders and snakes are gonna fall off to earth

@seanbutnotasheeple2090 Жыл бұрын

Takes forever to get to the shops

@pumpkingamebox Жыл бұрын

Russia is bigger than Pluto.

@elirothblatt5602 2 жыл бұрын

Finally someone learns how to thirst trap me with video titles. Excellent video, thank you! I subscribed!!

@GeographyGeek 2 жыл бұрын

😂 I appreciate it!

@duffal0 2 жыл бұрын

8:11 love the video but I’d advise against giving Zelenskyy any more publicity. There’s dozens of American journalists who have gone missing after speaking out against Zelenskyy

@Maver1ck911 2 жыл бұрын

Thats...not what a thirst trap is...

@Maver1ck911 2 жыл бұрын

@@duffal0 ill advise you to take your Russian pay check and gtfo the internet

@AshLilburne 2 жыл бұрын

@@Maver1ck911/videos So.... What actually is a 'thirst trap' then?

@lukaslambs5780 Жыл бұрын

I love how you actually do provide 10 minutes of straight facts!

@boterhamboy 10 ай бұрын

should be normal tho, right?

@garygreen2146 10 ай бұрын

It isn't though , it falsely says New Zealand schools are allowed 1 pound of Uranium , it is illegal for anyone in NZ to own or possess Uranium due to our total ban on all nuclear technology, weapons and materials

@georgemcmeechan2284 2 жыл бұрын

The thing in Falkirk Scotland was beside the river carron near stenhousemuir . Much love from Falkirk Scotland

@jimihughes8846 2 жыл бұрын

Always loved Geography since I was in school. Thanks

@krsc1363 2 жыл бұрын

@chiefmonrovia6691 2 жыл бұрын

4:01 I live in wisconsin, this law just recently changed. You can't do that in public anymore, so no bars or restaurants, however you can still be under 21 and enter a bar with a parent, and that same parent can give you alcohol at home just fine. Love these videos! I especially love all the cool maps you find, where do you get them all from?

@GeographyGeek 2 жыл бұрын

Ah interesting! Thank you! I find them in a few different places. I own quite a few historical atlases, but I also find them browsing through the Library of Congress' online archive, Raremaps.com, and The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection website.

@vortexcheetos3595 2 жыл бұрын

This channel is so underrated these facts are so interesting I could watch this all day

@GeographyGeek 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@sambowz9077 2 жыл бұрын

I second that!

@tvworks3861 11 ай бұрын

I’ve actually been binge watching videos from this channel all day😂

@Curestarlight87 2 жыл бұрын

Love geography!!! Easily the most undervalued subject, but my favorite. Keep making videos my guy and I will watch them.

@roblangada4516 2 жыл бұрын

11:35 Not just females, only 100 male Orthodox pilgrims and 10 non Orthodox pilgrims are allowed per day. To actually live there permanently you have to be an over 18 male who is Orthodox. The reason no women are allowed is because its been controlled by monastic orders for centuries (since the Byzantines), the Virgin Mary is supposed to represent the only femininity on the mountain. No females also makes celibacy for the monks and pilgrims less difficult.

@CC-re9df 2 жыл бұрын

What if I'm biologically a woman but I identify as a man? Can I cancel the orthodox church if they don't let me pilgrim there cause of my gender?

@piuthemagicman 2 жыл бұрын

@@CC-re9df well, you do you and cancel a millenia of religious traditions

@yahzkoroche Жыл бұрын

@@CC-re9df lmao

@concept5631 Жыл бұрын

@@CC-re9df The head patriarch of the area probably has a stroke because they don't think LGBT+ people are real. Real talk you wouldn't be allowed in anyway.

@concept5631 Жыл бұрын

@@CC-re9df As for cancelling the Orthodox Church, not sure, but if you did it would be funny.

@edwardlees4585 2 жыл бұрын

A great source of fun facts. I've used some of them (acquired over the years) in classes at the university with my tourism students and now I have loads more. Thanks.

@johnnysports4375 2 жыл бұрын

I literally was watching the og one as this got posted let's go

@santiagomolinareina4405 Жыл бұрын

5:23 For what I understand, this lake becomes a lake like once every 10 years due to heavy rains, and sea birds like pelicans know when and how to get there from thousands of miles away to feed and breed. Thanks for the videos, I've learned a lot!

@odacruz4986 2 жыл бұрын

When I was a kid I loved staring at maps, I learned to love geography and how it affected markets and crops

@fosterfuchs 2 жыл бұрын

Same here. The plastic protector on the desk where I did my homework had a world map as an insert.

@us3rG 11 ай бұрын

It's vary important for humans to know earth, their body and languages

@tiananmenraidbossjonliaoxi3188 2 жыл бұрын

Theory on Appalachian salt lake: Spanish found salt lake in Utah which spreads vertically along the Utah Rockies. Maybe the map was made after Spanish exploration but right before things like Lewis and Clarke expedition happened.

@GeographyGeek 2 жыл бұрын

I actually made a whole video on this - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gJN0lLqCu5nUqKs.html

@Meganawsomness 2 жыл бұрын

These will come in handy for my Pub Quizzes. Cheers!

@brylorbs69 2 жыл бұрын

I love this channel. Thank you so much! "Without geography, you're nowhere!"

@fernandaabreu5625 2 жыл бұрын

Yet with geography, you're now here!

@fbi8309 2 жыл бұрын

I just found this series and I am enjoying it

@CreepersNeedHugs Ай бұрын

3:56 my family is from Wisconsin. This is _such_ a Wisconsin thing.

@Oliver-ng4ft 2 жыл бұрын

4:22 Isn’t Plymouth, Montserrat technically the smallest given it has a population of 0?

@TobiasELee 2 жыл бұрын

Gotta love that geography, man. Nicely done.

@larrygrimaldi1400 2 жыл бұрын

Great research, thanks!

@TheSaltydog07 Жыл бұрын

Fun. Thank you. I like this pace of this video.

@eyetrollin710 Жыл бұрын

That Jedi fact is so funny because I have been listing that as my religion for over 20 years,

@BasketballGuy21 2 жыл бұрын

Who bouta stay up till midnight on a Tuesday to hear geography...

@BasketballGuy21 2 жыл бұрын

Also 1st

@sambowz9077 2 жыл бұрын

I will

@GanonsDisciple044 2 жыл бұрын

I'm so happy I found this channel

@MvsicAdd7ct 11 ай бұрын

Another fun fact: "sahara" means "desert, so Sahara desert means Desert desert.

@ribertonmendez Жыл бұрын

These are the fastest running 10 mins of any KZfaq videos

@lisalahr4328 2 жыл бұрын

I love this channel. It's fun

@GeographyGeek 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I try to mix it up between more in depth videos and then just random fun videos like this one.

@saax3816 2 жыл бұрын

@@GeographyGeek Can add a 5 second pause before the next topic? Its alot of facts and need a few seconds to digest

@xiticals 2 жыл бұрын

Les go can't wait

@patricka.crawley6572 Жыл бұрын

5:41 comprised of. I don't know how these videos are put together. May I add that your videos are music to my ears. They are very professional with the facts expertly researched and presented. I've been a student of Geography for over 60 years.

@radicalcat4942 2 жыл бұрын

I'm from Costa Rica, it makes me super happy to be oncluded in your video, what an honor so thank you so much and Pura Vida! And talking about geography, I can see my house in the picture you used. :D

@GeographyGeek 2 жыл бұрын

No problem! I got to visit Costa Rica when I was in high school. It was only the second country I had ever visited outside the US (though I’m not sure Canada really counts lol) and it was big reason I became so interested in geography and culture. This was over a decade again and I have still have a magnet on my refrigerator that says Pura Vida!

@radicalcat4942 2 жыл бұрын

@@GeographyGeek Seriously?! DUDE THAT'S AMAZING! Thank you so much for taking the time to study this very small but amazing nation, know you're always welcome back here and you're definetly "Pura Vida" Can't wait to see more videos on your channel to support you, brother, from one social science lover to other!

@Zabi-S Жыл бұрын

@@GeographyGeek Why wouldn't Canada count?

@GeographyGeek Жыл бұрын

@@Zabi-S next door, and near identical culture. Never felt like I left the US.

@MountainFisher Жыл бұрын

@@GeographyGeek Try Quebec, you will feel like you're in France.

@jordanw5833 2 жыл бұрын

6:26 laughed out loud, New Zealand is wild

@pietergreveling 2 жыл бұрын

These compilation of facts are really great! 👌🏼 Yes, those toilets are still common, but nowadays we also have a lot of hanging toilet without the flat bottom! 😁✌🏼

@GeographyGeek 2 жыл бұрын

I was semi familiar with it but now that you brought it up I’m on a Wikipedia rabbit hole 😂. I may have to steal this topic from you for a post.

@pietergreveling 2 жыл бұрын

@@GeographyGeek 🤣👍🏻 Was hoping you'd like it as a subject. 😁 And you can't steal it, when it is a gift. 😉 Already deleted my question, so nobody knows! ✌🏼

@freakpitch6032 2 жыл бұрын

totally gonna join the membership as superpower

@kevinsmith4923 Жыл бұрын

So good, thanks.

@creamage. Жыл бұрын

thanks to my Dutch gf, ik the dutchies loved their bikes. shoutout to her. I also encourage anyone who hasn't yet to visit the Netherlands. such a beautiful place with beautiful people. Also, the toilets definitely threw me off when I first saw them.🤣

@dearoll9899 Жыл бұрын

Whats wrong with our toilets 🤣 I don’t understand 😅

@creamage. Жыл бұрын

@@dearoll9899 in american the hole in the toilet bowl is towards the back bowl but in the netherlands i noticed all the holes were towards the front and that was just something i’d never seen before🤣

@darochavitor 2 жыл бұрын

Top notch content

@unique-luxury5237 2 жыл бұрын

Damn I had no idea about Rio being the Portugese capital. Awesome 🤣

@MrBlueBurd0451 2 жыл бұрын

May 4th is also the Dutch Remembrance of the Dead, our equivalent of Memorial Day.

@crazyjimheath 7 ай бұрын

sweet!! Thabk you !!

@HandyMan657 Жыл бұрын

Hey! I knew there were more Jedi out there. Awesome!

@purpledistance8633 2 жыл бұрын

I have one interesting fact. Loving County in Texas doesn't have ATM at all.

@goa5373 Жыл бұрын

in front of the German embassy in Rio de Janeiro, there is a public school called Anne Frank

@MerlinOlsen Жыл бұрын

That's way more kangaroos than I'm comfortable knowing about. I thought anything that weird has to be endangered.

@scotcoon1186 Жыл бұрын

Just a year ago, we had almost a 100 degree or so swing in 2 days in February in Nebraska.

@robertwagner5873 2 жыл бұрын

Lots of interesting stuff... do you do videos that elaborate on the things you put in these short videos... I'd subscribe if you did

@blessedwithchallenges9917 Жыл бұрын

It makes sense Australia and Appalachia have great prehistoric lakes when you understand the whole world underwent a flood, likely at the cataclysmic shifting of Pangia into separate continents.

@SanguiphiliaTV 11 ай бұрын

I'd love more info on the 1507 maps with Florida. I like these videos but sometimes you gloss over what I think is interesting and add details for other things (like the bike race admittance being capped eventually)

@GeographyGeek 11 ай бұрын

Made a video on that map - “The map that gave America it's name” kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mLOCm9aQypqoiKM.html

@inkonmyhands 2 жыл бұрын

hell yeah

@Anope24 2 жыл бұрын

I could be wrong, but I think Equatorial Guinea‘s territorial waters touch the equator

@YeeSoest 2 жыл бұрын

Wow! 4:45 is the biggest Diplomacy burn in the very distinguished and extensive history of Diplomacy burns ^^

@PlebeianTheWise 2 жыл бұрын

Such great trivia fodder

@tasaki12 Жыл бұрын

1:19 and costa rica if you consider the variant with the emblem on it

@kevinolesik1500 2 жыл бұрын

solid !

@shubhamkashyap6319 2 жыл бұрын

Subscribed

@andrewfleming5397 Жыл бұрын

I'm from Falkirk! Stonehousemuir is now called Stenhousemuir, that's where I grew up haha!

@rochewalkerpetersen4427 2 жыл бұрын

Hello from Cape Town!

@GeographyGeek 2 жыл бұрын

Hey there!

@Dawn_Aramoana63 10 ай бұрын

JEDI??? That's a new one on me 😅 so cool 👍

@petejenkins5574 2 жыл бұрын

There are a lot of small crossing points between adjacent countries in the EU. The tripoint border of Czechia, Poland and Germany has a bridge between Poland and Czechia, which is over a small stream - barely a rivulet, really - called the Lubota, and I am pretty sure it's smaller than 10 ft

@lbno7725 2 жыл бұрын

These make me feel like we’re all just people in a game of civ 6, like, I would definitely encourage nuclear experiments in my Civs high schools

@fuckwit107 Жыл бұрын

4:29 lmao. Great facts, and I always love a bad pronunciation of my city. Glaascow lol

@Hillers62 2 жыл бұрын

At 0:39 ....This is true...I've been there...But it messes up the Journey song "Don't Stop Believin'".... because of "Born and raised in south Detroit"...There is no south Detroit...just Windsor Cananda...

@benjaminrush4443 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

@stevepalmberg5905 2 жыл бұрын

Mississippi does flow north Check out headwaters of lake Itasca MN

@jonathanturek5846 Жыл бұрын

Dagobah is in New Zealand . A special place that it is is

@lopez6617 2 жыл бұрын

These are great facts!

@trentproctor3402 2 жыл бұрын

The London bridge got moved to lake Havasu Arizona

@JochemBoodt-VlochemVerkent 2 жыл бұрын

🔥🔥🔥

@nilsp9426 Жыл бұрын

4:52 the best example of "damnation" ever

@crazywarriorscatfan9061 2 жыл бұрын

Nice

@drudizzle1 Жыл бұрын

The difference between the hottest and coldest temp in California is a whopping 199 degree difference 😅

@hamishneilson7140 11 ай бұрын

Just like the Kashoggi road name, Ottawa changed the signs of the street the Russian embassy is on to the Ukrainian flag colours, and if I recall correctly they say “Free Ukraine” as a sub text under the street name, although that may just be another sign I’m mixing up with them.

@chasingshangrila Жыл бұрын

Awesome

@jeroencornelisse 2 жыл бұрын

Love your channel. Your fact about Suriname (only one movie theatre) is correct but the picture that goes with it, isn't. What you show used to be one of many cinemas in Paramaribo and is now office space. TBL Cinemas is located somewhere else.

@Justlibing010 Жыл бұрын

Also did u know that Finland and North Korea are separated by only one country?

@summerof67 20 күн бұрын

Yes, and Norway also

@learnurduwithsara1068 2 жыл бұрын

Most of them I didn't know 😯

@DugrozReports Жыл бұрын

the link at end of video is wrong.

@keeswillems4637 10 ай бұрын

My as a Dutch guy: the Netherlands has toilets like this: * a completely normal toilet* Can someone please explain what’s weird about it?

@blue9multimediagroup 3 ай бұрын

Drain hole is to the front rather than the back as in other countries

@shawnstoeckley5019 2 жыл бұрын

El Salvador is located in Central America and Not North America (Time 10:25)

@GeographyGeek 2 жыл бұрын

It's in both. Central America is a region within the continent of North America.

@ebbflowebbflow 2 жыл бұрын

@@GeographyGeek lol no! It's 3 separate divisions: North America (only Canada, USA and Mexico), Central America and South America. I live in Central America and this is a fact we all know since school. Also you missed another flag within itself: Costa Rica's with the code of arms (on the two boats there are mini flags).

@krishpatel3156 2 жыл бұрын

@@ebbflowebbflow There are only 2 continents entirely in the Western hemisphere. North America (Canada to Panama) and South America....

@ebbflowebbflow 2 жыл бұрын

@@krishpatel3156Nope. That's one single continent: America. Which is divided into the three parts I mentioned

@ebbflowebbflow 2 жыл бұрын

Oh! And "América Insular" which would be the islands (Cuba, Puerto Rico, República Dominicana, Haití, etc...)

@413xxx86 Жыл бұрын

Wisconsin Represent!!

@usmcalgm_ret_usmc_sdsd Жыл бұрын

Ordered Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall Scott Brick

@nickg3879 Жыл бұрын

Iran changed the name of the street that the UK embassy is on in Tehran to "Bobby Sands street". Sands was an Irish republican IRA hunger striker who died in 1981 in prison in Northern Ireland. He was also a member of the British parliament.

@AlexanderWeurding 2 жыл бұрын

Can you do Tartaria next ?

@GeographyGeek 2 жыл бұрын

I get this question a lot. It won’t be next but it’s on my list. I’ve been casually putting a script together as I learn more. I have a cool illustration of TarTars on an early 17th century map of mine I’ll share soon.

@sambowz9077 2 жыл бұрын

@@GeographyGeek Cool

@AlexanderWeurding 2 жыл бұрын

@@GeographyGeek Epic! Looking forward to that topic. And maps ;)

@karymecabrera4014 2 жыл бұрын

Glad Belize was included

@kuunib7325 Жыл бұрын

In the Netherlands we have 2 bicycles one for daily business and we call kroegviets, it's just to get to the pub and back home. We don't really care about our kroegvietsen since, well we are most likely drunk when we ride them.

@RKLS90 Жыл бұрын

3:41 could someone give a possible reason why the US is almost a perfect split between north & south when it comes to which states u can or cannot own piranhas? I’m having a hard time believing that split is just purely coincidental

@timothybaker8234 2 жыл бұрын

How about the easterly end of the Panama Canal is on the Pacific Ocean.

@blue9multimediagroup 3 ай бұрын

Because the canal runs NW to SE

@marksmit4134 2 жыл бұрын

Joh how long was that add not?

@cesarpupito8208 2 жыл бұрын

Australia from the British Empire that was cool 😀

@craigwiester9177 2 жыл бұрын

@ 2:36, one would think a geography geek would not flip a photo of Canada's Gaspe peninsula and the Saint Lawrence estuary.

@GeographyGeek 2 жыл бұрын

I don’t recall mentioning either lol

@greendom9893 2 жыл бұрын

So you made another 10 minutes am I gonna have to tell u another fact to put in the next one😂😂

@GeographyGeek 2 жыл бұрын

Do it

@DodgeWolf 9 ай бұрын

I don't get what is the problem with the toilet in NL? is it about the fact that whatever you shot stays there until you flush? I am quite confused.

@GregWeidman 2 жыл бұрын

I think Ngerulmud, Palau, probably has a smaller population than King Edward Point, South Georgia.

@konfettikus 11 ай бұрын

8:47 Cape Argus Cycle Tour

@ronathongreenwood3799 2 жыл бұрын

Jared diamond is a geographer? I always thought he was a cultural anthropologist.

@GeographyGeek 2 жыл бұрын

He is that as well. He has like a dozen titles. He currently teaches geography at UCLA.

@RepubliKING 2 жыл бұрын

Finally! I've lived a few other states in my time, but I'm from Milwaukee Wisconsin. I used to always try to bring underage people in the bar after I was old enough to do so, well people thought I was crazy, but then I told them I'm from Wisconsin and YOUR the crazy one.... most call me a liar, but finally a video to prove to you all that I'm not crazy, well, not legally. 😁😁

@ryanschatzberg4651 2 жыл бұрын

7:48 this is more true than ever

@JamesDunmore99 2 жыл бұрын

Can someone please explain to me how Brazil’s northernmost point, up at Mt Roraima on the border with Venezuela, is closer to Uraguay and Argentina then Brazil’s southernmost point? Brazil’s southernmost point borders Uraguay and is not far from Argentina so it seems like nonsense?

@haroeneissa790 2 жыл бұрын

Argentina stretches pretty far north and Uruguay is a little bit further north than Brazil's southernmost point.

@JamesDunmore99 2 жыл бұрын

@@haroeneissa790 So every other country’s most northern point is further north than Brazil’s southern point? I get that, thats obvious but I was sure he said “it’s closer to every other country in the americas” which wouldn’t have made sense

@haroeneissa790 2 жыл бұрын

@@JamesDunmore99 Brazil's northernmost point is actually closer to every other country in the americas than to it's southernmost point. The south american countries all have land that stretches further north, The caribbean countries are pretty close and even Canada is closer with ~4200 km compared to ~4400 km. I know it sounds ridicilous, but it's actually true.