🇬🇧BRIT Reacts To 40 RIDICULOUS GEOGRAPHY FACTS!

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  • Опубликовано: 5 ноя 2024

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  • @michaelschemlab
    @michaelschemlab Год назад +20

    You can’t see the Great Wall from space. That’s a misconception

    • @kingdarius513
      @kingdarius513 Год назад +7

      It's too thin right?

    • @michaelschemlab
      @michaelschemlab Год назад +8

      @@kingdarius513 yes. Plus it blends in with the soil around it

    • @prischm5462
      @prischm5462 Год назад +1

      It also never served its original purpose: to keep the Mongolians out.

    • @5stardave
      @5stardave 8 месяцев назад +1

      It depends on the lens used.

    • @spinalobifida
      @spinalobifida 8 месяцев назад

      Maybe with a telescope. But probably not.

  • @GrumpyOldGuyPlaysGames
    @GrumpyOldGuyPlaysGames Год назад +21

    Lakes are land-locked and are fed by rivers and strams. Seas are only partially landlocked, and tend to be fed directly by oceans. For example, Lake Okeechobee here in Florida is completely enclosed in land, but is fed from the waters of he Kissimmee River, Fisheating Creek (which is actually a river), Taylor Creek (which again, is a river), and Istokpoga River. On the other hand, the Carribean Sea (which includes the Florida Straits, the Gulf of Mexico, and Yucatan Channel, is directly connected to the Atlantic Ocean even while its shaped by Florida, the Mexican penninsula, and the islands of the Carribean themselves.
    The Caspian Sea is called a sea because of its immense size, but it is, in fact, just a lake.

    • @sherryheim5504
      @sherryheim5504 Год назад +4

      Great information, thank you.

    • @annfrost3323
      @annfrost3323 Год назад +2

      Oceans have salt water. Rivers and lakes don't.

    • @AdamNisbett
      @AdamNisbett Год назад +3

      @@annfrost3323most don’t. Some lakes (usually ones that have no outlet) do have salt water. Notable examples are the Dead Sea (which is actually a lake) in the Middle East and the Great Salt Lake in Utah.

    • @GrumpyOldGuyPlaysGames
      @GrumpyOldGuyPlaysGames Год назад +1

      @@annfrost3323 The Great Salt Lake begs to differ.

    • @lareeseblaque8303
      @lareeseblaque8303 Год назад

      Thanks 🌞 I thought I knew but became confused.

  • @gotham61
    @gotham61 Год назад +7

    One of my favorite facts is that Windsor Ontario Canada is closer to the Equator than Bilbao Spain.

  • @muoterharmon1599
    @muoterharmon1599 Год назад +11

    Lake Superior is not just in Canada, it is shared with the U.S. Of the 5 Great lakes , Lake Michigan is the only lake that is entirely within the borders of the U.S.

  • @Yardiegirl
    @Yardiegirl Год назад +11

    I’m Jamaican. I haven’t lived there in 3 decades, but it is absolutely one of the most difficult places to live. The cost of living is mind- boggling, and thus more poverty, and thus more anger and crime.

  • @Scottshodgepodge
    @Scottshodgepodge Год назад +37

    Nauru isn’t the world’s smallest country, Vatican City is

    • @jwb52z9
      @jwb52z9 Год назад +1

      Vatican City is a city state and the video purposely excluded city states.

    • @brianhums5056
      @brianhums5056 Год назад

      @scottboyenga7532 Vatican City is not a country, nor is DC in the USA or the city of London. That is what controls ALL, and it is gone soon. Trust that.

    • @briankirchhoefer
      @briankirchhoefer Год назад +10

      He said smallest country that's not a city-state. Vatican city is a city-state.

    • @brianhums5056
      @brianhums5056 Год назад

      @@briankirchhoefer Guess that part was left out, cause that is NOT what I read. And yes it WAS a city-state (fake as can be) but I was just speaking my opinion. If words got cut off, that is not my fault, cause city-state is still not in the post!

    • @renaissanceman7145
      @renaissanceman7145 Год назад +2

      ​@@briankirchhoeferhe said, "Nauru, the world's smallest country, is only six times larger than Central Park in New York City."
      He never said "...that's not a city state..."
      So, the OP is correct, Vatican City is the smallest country on Earth.

  • @TwinMama-jv3zb
    @TwinMama-jv3zb Год назад +3

    Lakes are surrounded by land on all sides, while seas are partially enclosed by land, but connected to oceans. Also, seas are only salt water, but lakes can be freshwater, saltwater, and brackish in very few cases.

  • @matshjalmarsson3008
    @matshjalmarsson3008 Год назад +2

    The notion that The Great Wall can bee seen from space is a very famous myth, since it's only a couple of meters wide it's easy to understand that it can not

  • @gotham61
    @gotham61 Год назад +3

    Climbs of Everest typically start at the South Base Camp which is at 5300 Meters, so vertically you are already about about 2/3rds of the way up.

  • @Slayr.
    @Slayr. Год назад +2

    Seeing the great wall from space is just a myth.

  • @JPMadden
    @JPMadden Год назад +2

    1) Another obstacle to Africa's economic development, one that might not be fully appreciated, is its weather. Except for tiny countries like Singapore, plus the Arab oil states, nearly all of the wealthiest and probably all of the most economical diverse nations are located in temperate climates. Without the conveniences of modern life, most people in a hot climate have little time or energy left after providing the basic necesstities of life.
    2) Both Luxembourg and Ireland have relatively low tax rates on corporate profits. Giant companies like Apple "cook the books" so that legally their massive global profits were earned in these two countries, or other tax havens. I don't know of any other reason why they have the two highest GDP-per-capita in the world.
    3) I googled the factors which determine the "Peace Index." Among the 23 they use, these contribute to the low U.S. score--number of foreign wars, per capita prison population (world's highest), military expenditure as a percentage of GDP, active military members per capita, volume of weapons sold overseas (world's highest), number of nuclear weapons (second to Russia), and civilian ease-of-access to firearms (no comment).

  • @cshubs
    @cshubs Год назад +2

    I like that brief view of Cape Town.

  • @gotham61
    @gotham61 Год назад +3

    A lake is an inland body of water that is usually fresh (not salty) water. A sea is a body of salt water that connects directly to an ocean, and ocean is a large body of salt water that lies between multiple continents.

  • @sharcrum
    @sharcrum Год назад +2

    I would think a lake is freshwater and sea or ocean is salt water

  • @yiha8523
    @yiha8523 Год назад +5

    Well said Kabir. Corruption and mismanagement have cost Africa and her people a lot. The Continent is well endowered with both human and material resources, yet it is the poorest Continent on the face of the earth. The leaders have economically, socially and politically bankrupt their people while living lavishly.

    • @PhuckYT12
      @PhuckYT12 Год назад

      ​@@cygnusx-3217Niger's issue is that the democratically elected president is held hostage by a man who seized power rather than give up his position.

    • @kikibigbangfan3540
      @kikibigbangfan3540 Год назад

      Corruption came with the Colonizers. As well as the massive theft that goes on from a lot of European nations draining Africa of it's natural resources and financial independency.

  • @xenotbbbeats7209
    @xenotbbbeats7209 Год назад +2

    Ha! My brother taught in the Congo region when it was Zaire, and the first language he had to master was, indeed, French, followed by Lingala and Mbaka. I'm spelling those phonetically. As for the peace index, we, in the U.S. are always invading.

  • @beesnestna9544
    @beesnestna9544 Год назад +2

    This might just be the most anticlimactic (or underwhelming) "Geography Facts" video I have ever seen.😄😉 Peace Kabir🕊

  • @SilvanaDil
    @SilvanaDil Год назад +2

    The world's highest residence is in, of course, a building in NYC. The next is ... another building in NYC. Billionaires Row

  • @WhodatLucy
    @WhodatLucy Год назад +2

    We in Louisiana have bayous which is slow moving River, we have rivers which is a body of water that moves place to place, lakes a body of water surrounded by land, a gulf surrounded of three sides by land, a lake that has an estuary (Lake Pontchartrain at 659 square miles)since it does mix in salt water and a river that has an estuary (Mississippi River empties into the gulf

  • @justawhisperintheuniverse8257
    @justawhisperintheuniverse8257 Год назад

    That blows my mind, the thing about how tall Everest is and the one about how long the Great Wall is. Insane numbers.

  • @deborahmgkunze4104
    @deborahmgkunze4104 Год назад

    Although I hadn't really thought about it before, I wasn't surprised to learn that Kinshasa is the largest French-speaking city in the world. The DR Congo is enormous, and was a Belgian colony. French is the official language, since the country is made up of so many different tribes with so many different languages.
    I spent most of my childhood in the DR Congo -- when it was still Zaire. Funny side note: When it came time to pick a language to take in high school, I wanted to take Spanish, but because we were in the Congo, my parents insisted I take French. But I've spent 15 of the last 23.5 years within 40 miles of the Mexico border, and now live only 27 miles north of it (in the US), where Spanish would be so much more helpful to know. I still tease my parents about that occasionally. 😄

  • @scrambler69-xk3kv
    @scrambler69-xk3kv Год назад +1

    Kabir react to this video. Riding the school bus in 1978. Also a subject Have a look at the Little League world series Williamsport Pennsylvania game facility. If you are not familiar with the Little League world series, thee are baseball teams of 10 to 12 year old boys from around the world who through elimination games make their way to Williamsport Pennsylvania for the world championship game. There is also a girls version except it is softball.

  • @WhodatLucy
    @WhodatLucy Год назад +1

    Lane by definition is a body of water surrounded by land a sea is a lake that surrounds land

  • @SilvanaDil
    @SilvanaDil Год назад +7

    It's hard to get a "good" ranking on the peace index, when you're the world's policeman.

    • @justawhisperintheuniverse8257
      @justawhisperintheuniverse8257 Год назад

      Maybe the US should stop doing that.

    • @SilvanaDil
      @SilvanaDil Год назад

      @@justawhisperintheuniverse8257 - Don't like security and prosperity? The US doing that since 1945 has made those things possible.

    • @PhuckYT12
      @PhuckYT12 Год назад

      ​@@justawhisperintheuniverse8257US wouldn't have to if somebody else was trustworthy enough or strong enough to.

    • @justawhisperintheuniverse8257
      @justawhisperintheuniverse8257 Год назад +1

      @@PhuckYT12 It would be fine. It would be nice to invest some of those resources back into our own society.

    • @EmperorKaykore
      @EmperorKaykore Год назад +1

      @@SilvanaDilThe USA has been responsible for starting the most wars out of any country in the last century, whether intentionally or not. To name a few countries the USA has started a war with are: Cuba, Iran, Afghanistan(more than once), and Iraq. And countries the USA made start civil conflicts include Cuba, South Africa, and Iran. The idea that the USA provides “security and prosperity” is laughable and only someone wholly ignorant of their own countries foreign relations would think. There’s a reason that most of the Middle East, lots of Africa, and a multitude of other countries dislike the USA, it’s cause they are nosy warmongers that have little to no regard for anything but their own interests.

  • @gregadkins2483
    @gregadkins2483 Год назад +7

    Why does that GDP chart list the USA in the Americas? North and South America are different continents. I know it isn't that big of a deal, but that really irritates me. It, also, annoys me when people think that Mexico, Guatamala, Hondorus etc are in South America just because they speak Spanish. Okay, rant over. Good video.

    • @Scottshodgepodge
      @Scottshodgepodge Год назад +3

      Overseas, some people consider the entire Western Hemisphere as one continent.

    • @ARetiredPirate
      @ARetiredPirate Год назад +4

      In some countries, It is the name of the landmass.

  • @Scottshodgepodge
    @Scottshodgepodge Год назад +2

    We here in the US have been kinda involved in some wars in the fairly recent past so that ranking doesn’t stun me. lol

    • @kevinbrown-ge6sz
      @kevinbrown-ge6sz Год назад +2

      Several European countries have been involved in the same wars. If you look into how the index is computed it looks suspiciously like they are adding categories to make the US finish poorly such as nuclear capability, defense spending, number of military personnel. Many of these categories can just as easily be described as peace keeping.

    • @EmpressMermaid
      @EmpressMermaid Год назад +2

      I has a lot to do with military spending and size of military.

  • @lareeseblaque8303
    @lareeseblaque8303 Год назад

    Great video. Very interesting 😊

  • @gregorybiestek3431
    @gregorybiestek3431 Год назад

    5:50 Kabir, you asked how many and what was the world's population over 50, well figures are kept a little differently. There are 1.8 Billion people (23.1%) age 40 to 59 in the world and and additional 918 million (11.8%) between 60-79 with a further 147 million (1.9%) aged 80 to 99. Combined that would be approximately 2.72 Billion or 36.8% of the world population between the ages of 40 and 99.

  • @chocomog9567
    @chocomog9567 Год назад

    a lake is fresh water, a sea and ocean is salt water, and I know sea meets ocean and are smaller but I think sea is surrounded by land and ocean is not

  • @sherryheim5504
    @sherryheim5504 Год назад +3

    The US has their dirty little fingers in everybody's pie. I swear there is no potential conflict too small for us to get involved in it. Obama alone entered 7 conflicts in his 8 years and accelerated our involvement in Afghanistan (and he received the Nobel Prize for peace). While he talked about how he was removing troops from Iraq, he was moving more troops into Afghanistan. I can't help but believe that our representatives have a financial stake in war, be it stock in manufacturers of war planes or weapons, the building of bombs or even the food for our military, it seems clear that there is definitely a high motivation for entering the US into conflicts. We don't call them war anymore but in my opinion, if we are occupying a country and bombing and killing innocent people, it is war.

    • @ramprashad29
      @ramprashad29 Год назад +1

      Don’t talk shit about our great country we have our bad but I love it. For those who don’t and live here move to North Korea etc

  • @jahnj2523
    @jahnj2523 Год назад

    Will you react to the lady who said she had sex with a skookum ape and gave birth to a hybrid that lived until it was 12