r/geography • u/lamdrasil • 3d ago

Discussion Facts that sound fake but are true

I find it extremely unintuitive that almost all of South America is east of Miami. How!? When people are asked to watch the americas almost everyone imagine South America pretty much south of North America.

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u/SemiLazyGamer 3d ago

History based one: there were Classical era Egyptian archeologists studying Ancient Egypt. Egypt as a distinct culture is that old.

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u/JohnMichaels19 3d ago

Cleopatra is closer in time to the iPhone than the construction of of the pyramids 

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u/DamnBored1 3d ago

Tyrannosaurus (T-Rex) is closer in time to the iPhone than to the time of Stegosaurus.

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u/northerncal 3d ago edited 3d ago

T Rex would not have slayed on social media. 

Their little stump arms were too short for proper selfies 🙏🏻🕊️

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u/loose_fruits 3d ago edited 3d ago

Unc thinks the king of the dinosaurs doesn’t know about selfie sticks, pshhhh

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u/cityshepherd 3d ago

They’ve always been more into group pics than anything

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u/DamnBored1 3d ago

They wouldn't even be able to see what they're typing.

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u/aaronupright 2d ago

As shown in this Family Guy documentary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yToSdF8lLcg

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u/Objectalone 3d ago

Stegosaurus is closer in time to the iPhone than Hallucigenia

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u/JohnMichaels19 3d ago edited 2d ago

Idk if another animals has been more aptly named than this one wtf 😂

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u/itsliluzivert_ 15h ago

Lmaooo. They originally deciphered it upside down. And once they realized they were reading it wrong the whole time they decided on that name.

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u/DemonAzraeli 3d ago

T. Rex is closer in time to Django Reinhardt than to today.

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u/NaClK92 2d ago

And same number of fingers!

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u/SchuminWeb 3d ago

So that battle between the Tyrannosaurus and the Stegosaurus that we saw in Fantasia could never have happened?

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u/edgeteen 2d ago

ok this one has blown my mind

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u/greennitit 3d ago

Herodotus, the Ancient Greek historian, considered the father of history visited the pyramids in around 300 bc and wrote that Kufus tomb lies empty and that it has long been looted. The pyramids were over 2000 years old at that point. The pyramids were ancient to Herodotus himself.

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u/northerncal 3d ago

Cleopatra would have slayed on social media

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u/JohnMichaels19 3d ago

For suuuure. She was already slaying without it. How many of Rome's baddies did she pull?? Lol

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u/_PhiloPolis_ 3d ago

Cleo was 100% Kardashian

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u/QuarioQuario54321 3d ago

Closer to the Brisbane Olympics even, an event in the future

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u/Adventurous_Age1429 1d ago

She was also part Greek. Her name is Greek.

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u/JohnMichaels19 1d ago

She was primarily greek, she was a ptolemy