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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Surprising distance comparisons are among my favorite geography facts. Here's a new one I learned: The capital of Ethiopia is as far from the largest city in Nigeria as it is from Mumbai in India. https://i.imgur.com/6iS9XSn.jpg
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Breck Yunits
@breck
Boston is closer to Moscow than to Honolulu
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
The northernmost part of Brazil is closer to Canada than it is to the southernmost part of Brazil. https://i.imgur.com/jaRBXJd.jpg
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Varun Srinivasan
@v
latitudinal alignment is another that trips me up- always surprises me that bangalore is in line with the sahara
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Hades
@hades
Exactly same distance between Kolomna and Valencia (your city and mine), Russia and Spain. Incredible right?
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Vinay Vasanji
@vinayvasanji.eth
Indeed. Africa is big https://i.imgur.com/1vNUR6K.jpg
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Tony D’Addeo
@deodad
no matter how many times I look at a map I'll always be surprised by new relationship if I look again
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Simon de la Rouviere
@simondlr
My favourite one is that NYC->Reykjavik is only 155 miles further than NYC-> LA.
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Tim O’Shea
@timothyoshea
The mouth of the Amazon is nearly as wide as the distance from London to Paris.
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Carlos Matallín
@matallo.eth
The southernmost point of Britain including London are further North than Toronto and other major Canadian cities.
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Aleph 🎩 ↑
@aleph
Senegal is like an “n” around Gambia. I find it soooo cool that there are a lot of trips you’ll take from the southern Senegal area (Casamance) to Northern Senegal that require driving through Gambia. https://i.imgur.com/2cryaFM.jpg
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Ash Crawford
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I only learned this today! What are they teaching in Australian schools. smh thanks @vitalik.eth
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Ashinthewild
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K if we are sharing thoughts on perceptions, being a number dum dum, what is fascinating to me is if you multiply the # 9 and add the digits of that multiplaction, you always get the # 9 So, 6x9 = 45 and 4+5= 9 So, 2x9= 18 and 1 +8= 9
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mark mollé
@marmo
The shortest distance between two points is an inconceivably straight quantumly entangled line
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Syed Shah🏴‍☠️🌊
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Mercator strikes again
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