18 Minutes Of Useless Geography Facts To Brighten Your Night 

“Hawaii is not covered by NATO protection” Japan: “Time for round 2, boys”

If anyone wonders what the subliminal message was for one frame at 3:31... "Technically, the US was unhabited at some point and the whole american continent is an island... Sounds like normal UK shenanigans"

15:30 It's even better then that. Parts of the Aleutians are past the antimeridian; making Alaska the Northernmost, Westernmost, *and* Easternmost State in/part of the US.

Yes, that Dingo Fence is real. It stretches for 5,614 km or 3,488 miles to keep dingoes out of the relatively fertile southeast part of the continent where the majority of Australians live (like Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Adelaide, etc) and protect the sheep flocks of southern Queensland. It used to be over 8,000 km long, but because they didn't want the extinction of the dingo and wild-dog cross-breeds, poisoning them with compound 1080 (sodium monofluoroacetate) baits was preferable and cheaper than fence maintenance. A compromise in the form of the continued use of poison and the shortening of the fence from its previous length of over 8000 km has been made. They've also built rabbit-proof fences! Rabbit-proof fences were introduced into Western Australia to deal with the problem of over-population of rabbits destroying crops and degrading pastureland. Rabbits were first introduced into Australia by the First Fleet when they arrived in Botany Bay in 1788. There are three rabbit-proof fences in Western Australia! When completed, the rabbit-proof fence (including all three fences) stretched 2,023 miles (3,256 km). When it was completed in 1950, the 1,139-mile (1,833 km) No. 1 Fence was the longest unbroken fence in the world Here's some volcano facts: The sounds of the eruption of the Krakatoa volcano in 1883 were estimated to be 310 dB SPL! It was heard 3,110 kilometers (1,930 mi) away in Perth, Australia, and Rodrigues near Mauritius, 4,800 kilometers (3,000 mi) away! The eruption was a 6 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index, but there have been eruptions more powerful than that! In 946 CE, Mount Paektu on the China-DPRK border was a 7 on the VEI! The eruption, whose tephra has been found in the southern part of Hokkaidō, Japan, and as far away as Greenland, destroyed much of the volcano's summit, leaving a caldera that today is filled by Heaven Lake! An average of about 5 cm of Plinian ashfall and Coignimbrite ashfall covered about 580,000 sq. miles all the way to Japan! An emperor was so alarmed by the devastation that he set all his convicts free. The mountain has been considered sacred by Koreans throughout history. Many kingdoms of Korea such as Buyeo, Goguryeo, Balhae, Goryeo, and Joseon worshipped the mountain!

Toycat is right, fry bread is frickin delicious

In the 2018, 2020, and 2021 referendums, the Loyalty Islands actually voted for independence from France! And an interesting thing about Hawaii is despite being in the tropics, they still get blizzards at its highest elevations! Snow in Hawaii is often associated with a Kona low, which occurs when winds that typically blow out of the northeast shift and begin to blow from the southwest, over the leeward or “Kona” side of the islands. Here are some other interesting facts: Besides Karl Bushby walking across, someone actually SWAM between Little and Big Diomede in 1987, Boston-born Lynne Cox, for 2 hours and 6 minutes as a sign of goodwill between the US and the USSR! She twice held the record for the fastest crossing of the English Channel in 1972 and 1973! Alaska has a land area of 571,951 square miles or over 1,481,300 square km, and a total area of 665,384 square miles, or over 1,723,300 square km! It has more total area than the next three largest states of Texas, California and Montana COMBINED! And the US bought all that land from the Russians in 1867 for 7.2 million US Dollars (which was equivalent to $157 million in 2023). And the Russians almost sold it to LIECHTENSTEIN, who said no because they thought it was useless! As for the Alaskan state flag, thirty-two years before Alaska became a state, the Alaska Department of the American Legion sponsored a territorial contest for children from seventh grade to twelfth grade to design a flag for the then territory. In 1927, the contest committee chose Benny Benson's design, a fourteen-year-old orphan. Benny was a Qawalangin (Fox Islander) Unangan born to a Swedish-American father and Aleut-Russian mother. Choosing the familiar constellation he looked for every night before going to sleep at the orphanage, he submitted his flag and symbolism. Benson's design was chosen over roughly 700 other submissions. He used the $1,000 prize from the flag design competition to enroll in the Hemphill Diesel Engineering School for Diesel engine repair. The blue field is for not just the Alaska sky but also the forget-me-not, the official flower of Alaska!

this did brighten my night, thank u :)

9:22 those zombie noises had me checking if i had minecraft open 😂

Time for a Toycat video.

Toycat you make the best vids whether its geography or minecraft

Actually helped my terrible night, thank you 🙏

How did you know I would be listening to this as I tried to fall asleep

Please do more of these videos!!!! Knowing geography is kinda my only talent and yet I know very little outside countries, flags and capitals.

Howd you know it was late at night 👀

Exactly what I needed right now for doing late night tasks

You published this at 2pm in my time zone

One of the best channels on RU-vid. I'm not joking

"the isle of man is sort of like a country" as a resident of the country of the isle of man, this triggers me 😂

You forgot to mention the Australian Central Western Standard Time - ACWSTTime Zone (UTC Offset: UTC +8:45) where less than 100 people live.

08:31. No, you said it right the first time. Antarctica gets 3 months of direct sunlight *in the summer*. The fact that it's winter here, doesn't mean that it's called winter there. :D

HUZZAH! Andrew, may your harvest this year last you many winters.

i'm from saskatchewan and i got so mf excited to see it mentioned !!

The uncoloured part of the timezone map you said looks like part of Labrador is part of Quebec. It's the Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent municipality region and it's one of 3 Quebec regions that stay on daylight savings time. The other two are its islands and the Listuguj Miꞌgmaq First Nation reserve.

I am vacationing in America so this indeed brightened my evening

Technically, Japan _was_ once colonized by a European nation. Not by the general interpretation of 'colonizing', but the Dutch used to have their own established bases of operations, also known as _factories_ , I believe in Kyushu. These factories, though without any form of influence of power (except by trade relations) in Japan, are basically the exact same thing as the 'colony' presence in Sri Lanka by the Dutch (though there with influence of power). So by some meanings of colonizing, setting up a 'colony' was done by the Dutch in Japan.

Saw this in the recommended and I was like ayyy I watched his bedrock minecraft content. Dope content

There used to be a few counties within Indiana that didn't do daylight savings.

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Wine pairing (and other drinks) with food is real af trust the taste buds lad

i’m watching this first thing in the morning what now Toycat

I watch this in the early afternoon

These fact will definitely stick with me.

great vid

Re: time zones, I miss living in Indiana before they succumbed. Been feeling extra groggy twice a year for no good reason since ‘06 woohoo. And, If I had to guess the wine differences in pairing came partly from the fact that by the time new world wines were a thing water was generally more safe/available to drink. Before that your well to do would want to drink wine with meals to especially show off their “fancy” (instead of the watered down ales/beers or whatever of the lower class) and some things certainly can taste weird together. Well seeing this was posted brightened my night but I tried semi-successfully to sleep earlier so this was watched in the morning. 😴 Lots of fun and little things to notice. Glad to see more “second channel” videos and hope there’s something more to come about the first part of that trip. 👀

On the topic of time zones you should have mentioned that the town of Eucla in on the border with West Australia and South Australia that has a population of 53 people has their own unofficial time zone of UTC+8:45.

Imagine traveling the entirety of Eurasia only to end up in Hull.

Post Good Friday agreement, the Republic of Ireland does not 'claim' ownership of Northern Ireland

Won't catch me watching 2cat at 4 am

It is indeed late at night. 12:24am here.

Indonesia being included into the "new world" is wild, Australia and Oceania also.

17:00 Ireland dont claim the north, they gave up their claim of the 6 counties when they signed the good friday agreement

While we don’t have day light savings. Things in the winter often have different timings in the winter. I think that makes much more sense than turning your clock back

Instead of removing daylight savings, my state, Illinois, considered making it permanent

Something I find kinda funny is that when I ask my friends here in brazil where Jamaica is they usually say Africa. My guess is that the only person from Jamaica they know is Bob Marley and they think he is african

why is the location marker watermark thing not on this one's thumbnail toycat you've RUINED MY NIGHT

Old world wines almost exclusively refer to European wines, and more specifically "traditional" wine styles and regions. "new world" is more just a way of saying "new school of thought" even for wines that come from Europe. In general it is a mostly eurocentric term that is almost entirely about philosophy and style and nothing to do with geography.

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Is the arctic circle more famous than the equator?

My fun fact is that Alaska is the most Eastern, Western, and northern most state

Aw, American Samoa didn't get a shout out. China should have been called out for having just 1 time zone for the whole country. (As an American, I used my lineage to add Italian citizenship, ergo EU "citizenship." Only reason Brexit was a bit disappointing.)

This upload has confirmed my suspicions you live on nautical time

If you're gonna use 'date of first habitation' as the distinction between the new world and the old world, then you'd definitely have to include Madagascar as new world. It was first settled by humans no earlier than 250 AD.

13:35 You just said "doodoo" lol

Daylight savings time is so confusing to me as an Argentinean. Like why should we change the clocks lmao

I love this guys second channel but have never watched his first channel

Toycat I am a 'Kangatarian', Roo does actually taste quite good especially with garlic and herb marinades 😋

Funny of you to say "why don't we just go to work an hour early" that's exactly what we are doing tho we are just forcing every employer to comply by changing the clock

the zombie sound at 14:14 scared me so much i was like wait am i still logged on to a server and about to die lmao

@ 5:31 old vs new world. Iceland wasn't settled until the Vikings got there.

It's still 3 months of direct sunlight during summer, summer is just from Dec through Feb.

Toycat it’s like 2 am in the UK rn why are u up lol

Haha I'm watching this in the evening 😈😈😈

17:46 how far back does it go? Great grandparent?

14:15 i heard that zombie 😂

Toycat defo still in that teenage sleeping phase 😅

Did they make the dingoes pay for the fence?

Don't be hemispherist! Antartica gets very long days in Summer, which is about December to March in the Southern Hemipshere (depending on your county's definition of seasons). Daylight saving is more effective further away from the Equator. That's because the daylight lasts much longer in Summer, away from the Equator. The Southern Hemisphere can have daylight saving, and some countries do. The southern states of Australia and New Zealand do it. The reason that there are not huge numbers of Southern Hemisphere countries with DLS is that there are nowhere near as many countries in the Southern Hemisphere.

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5:49 lol is that an adizz pro thumbnail?

It's not useless. You can make a quiz

0:50 why do i hear a Minecraft zombie xD

00:21 "its late at night" Bruh I know I am watching after 1 hour but its morning, europe time is late

Yes fry bread is correct. I grew up next to the oneida nation

"ur probably watching this late at night" ... I mean... It's technically just very early in the morning...

there is actually some islands in Alaska that cross the International Date Line making the USA one of the most eastern and western nations in the world Edit: Fact checked and found that it doesn't cross the IDL but it does cross the 180th meridian so it still counts.

since when did indonesia become a part of the new world? it was known to everyone since a long time

Alaska is both further east and west of Canada.

6:48 North Korea should definitely be yellow, they were very much in the Soviet sphere of influence for most of the Cold War.

How can New Caledonian ? Not be part of Scotland ? And Nova Scotia tae ? Asking for a friend 😅

0.01% introduction, 99.99% facts Great service

It is roughly midday here on the East Coast of Australia.

you made me work too hard to read that at 3:30

You got me

Yeah, actually, why do we change our clocks in summertime? There's loads of daylight hours in summertime, we don't need to worry about it being dark at the wrong time, why don't we just keep the winter time year round??

15:45 Nan & Pop’s Dildo Souvenir Shop

15:55 The US is further north, south, east, and west, than Japan

I keep waiting to find out about that secret grandparent who was born in an EU country with the blood citizenship laws. I'm German ancestry but my Grandpa was part of the Volga Deutsch in Russia :(

6:48 Simplistic. Ethiopia-always having had a Christian king-was historically treated by Europeans as UNCOLONIZABLE. 🇪🇹 Just because she was temporarily occupied by Italy during World War II doesn't mean that she was an Italian colony. By that childish definition, Japan and South Korea were also colonies following the war since they were both under an American military government for 10 years. 🇯🇵🇰🇷 And for all intents and purposes, Afghanistan 🇦🇫 and Thailand 🇹🇭 were under European control. They only got left nominally independent because, in the case of the former, England and Russia needed a buffer state separating India from Central Asia, and in the case of the latter, England and France needed a buffer state separating the Subcontinent from Indochina.

That's "varietal" not "variety" on the wine. The varietal is the type of grape used. In Europe there are much older traditions and over the years wines have been perfected down to things like the soil and climate of a specific region, whereas the average American wine has undergone centuries less optimization so its just the grape type that is emphasized. Also, it's the seasons that swap places in the Southern Hemisphere, not the sunlight. So its still the summer when the daytime is 24 hours and winter when the nighttime is 24 hours, those just happen during the opposite months from when those seasons occur for us in the Northern Hemisphere.

A perfect rectangle is impossible on a globe anyway 🤭

Why you gotta do Hull like that :(

Dude needs a Xan

I can hear Minecraft zombie from the first channel

14:14 minecraft zombie

What about the south of Argentina, it wasn’t under European control.

THE SUN NEVER SETS IN THE USA WOOO

Guam follows UTC+10 not UTC+8

Are you also an insomniac toycat?

Alaska is the the furthest state North, West, and East!