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re: Post a few maps/photos of surprising things about America
Posted on 8/22/24 at 6:11 pm to LegendInMyMind
Posted on 8/22/24 at 6:11 pm to LegendInMyMind
Where’s the curve?!?!?
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Posted on 8/22/24 at 6:13 pm to KennabraTiger
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Because of their massive size and large populations, there are 43 buildings in New York City that have their own exclusive zip codes
Posted on 8/22/24 at 6:16 pm to Athis
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Coke is a Coke.. Everything else is a Soft Drink.
Shut your whore mouth.
Posted on 8/22/24 at 6:18 pm to 0x15E
There are only 3 states in the US that has a building taller than the highest elevation located within that same state:
Florida
Louisiana
Illinois
Florida
Louisiana
Illinois
Posted on 8/22/24 at 6:37 pm to 0x15E
Maryland is closer to Ohio than it is to New York City.
Posted on 8/23/24 at 7:10 am to Y.A. Tittle
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It struck me as sort of a massive waste of money (how many billions did it ultimately cost?), for a mostly useless and not even really that attractive strip of greenspace. I mean, I guess it looks better than the freeway, but I just remember seeing it in person and thinking, 'Wait, y'all spent a few years worth of your whole city budget for THIS?
Having lived there before and after the Big Dig, it transformed the city in a significant way — not just aesthetically. You can always argue the value of any massive public project but status quo wasn’t going to be free.
Posted on 8/23/24 at 7:14 am to Mushroom1968
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Soda is taking over because all those in California fleeing what they voted for are moving to the South
I used to call everything coke but around 20 years ago I switched to soda, not sure why. Now calling a Dr Pepper a coke feels weird
Posted on 8/23/24 at 7:23 am to 0x15E
Posted on 8/23/24 at 7:24 am to 0x15E
Looks like all countries converge around either Choctaw or Washington counties in Alabama.
Posted on 8/23/24 at 7:56 am to DavidTheGnome
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I used to call everything coke but around 20 years ago I switched to soda, not sure why. Now calling a Dr Pepper a coke feels weird
Same here and it was probably more than 20 years but I know why.
The erosion started when more soft drink products began entering the market. I can even date it back to having to say more words for just a frickin coke when I had to distinguish New Coke from a Coca Cola Classic. Around then is when waitresses started to ask if Pepsi was ok because they stopped carrying coke.
The market changed the vocabulary.
Posted on 8/23/24 at 8:38 am to Beauw
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I didn't know there was a country called Kiribati.
Last year, flying from San Francisco to New Zealand at night, I looked down and saw a bunch of lights on an island in the middle of the dark Pacific Ocean. Zoomed in on the flight tracker on the back of chair screen; it was Kiribati.
Did a little research, it is actually pronounced Kiri-boss, because it used to be Christmas Island and that's the closest spelling and phonetic equivalent in the local language.
Posted on 8/23/24 at 8:42 am to JustLivinTheDream
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you are able to see Chicago from Southwest Michigan thanks to atmospheric refraction,
Fata morgana.
This post was edited on 8/23/24 at 11:34 am
Posted on 8/23/24 at 9:14 am to East Coast Band
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The most shocking part of this map is how large some of the counties are in the southwest. A few of those counties in AZ, NV, and SOCAL are about half the size of Louisiana.
Posted on 8/23/24 at 9:20 am to 0x15E
The distance from Orange,Tx to El Paso,Tx is farther than El Paso,Tx to Los Angeles,Ca.
Posted on 8/23/24 at 9:53 am to Y.A. Tittle
If you don't have Bluetooth location permissions turned on when you enter it, your map navigation still thinks you're above ground and tries to tell you to turn into the wall of the tunnel. I was pissed until I figured out what was wrong.
Posted on 8/23/24 at 9:57 am to 0x15E
Cool pictures.
This post was edited on 8/23/24 at 10:00 am
Posted on 8/23/24 at 9:59 am to Mushroom1968
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Soda is taking over because all those in California fleeing what they voted for are moving to the South.
I moved from Bama to NC in 96. Was calling is soda pretty quick.
Posted on 8/23/24 at 10:08 am to Pettifogger
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Not the mythical Southern "I'll have a coke sir" "Ok son what kind" "Mr. Pibb"
Have to disagree, North Texas/Dallas area. This was how it was in the 70s and 80s.
South Texas, everything was “soda water”
North of Oklahoma, everything was a pop
It has changed a lot, but you don’t have to go to the 1920s, You just have to go back to the early 80s in the 70s to find everything being called a Coke In North Texas
Posted on 8/23/24 at 10:57 am to Old Sarge
There are six state capitals west of Los Angeles: Sacramento, Salem, Olympia, Juneau, Honolulu and Carson City.
Posted on 8/23/24 at 11:09 am to UpToPar
New York County (which is Manhattan) is the second smallest county in the US (2nd only to a county in Hawaii), yet it consistently ranks in the top 10 of the most populous counties in the US.
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