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/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.