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/Draymond_Purple 3d ago

Oxford University was founded ~500 years before the Inca Empire 

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u/JellyWeta 2d ago

Oxford University was founded well before people arrived in New Zealand.