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3:24 This image is exagerated to showcase difference. Proportionally to size, the earth is so round it would fall within tolerance of a regulation billiards ball, and would be smoother than the surface of a pool ball. From the highest mountain to lowest point on earth would be less than the the depth of a single scuff mark on a used billiard ball.
afaik this has been disproven its still way to exagerated but the surface would indeed be bumpy enough to not be smooth enough like a bowling/pool ball (which ball it was supposed to compared against is also region specific making it less believable in the first place) to be actually regulation tournament approved they would indeed be to bumpy (although not by much)
@@iNinBreak 8km to 6000 km is 0.04mm to a 3cm ball, like a pool ball. That is not noticeable. Edit : So apparently a finger can feel a bump of 13 nanometers, so that's a thing !
1:46 the funny part is that i spent a solid 5 minutes trying to figure out what country it is only to give up and look up a map of Europe only to find out it doesn't exist
8:50 to make this a little more accurate, Ireland is most likely the neighbours love affair kid and he absolutely knows it but papa UK still refuses to accept it. (I say this as a brit)
*facepalm* You write like a 9 year old trying too hard to be an adult. The question makes perfect sense. Why would the country be named Black Mountain if there isnt a mountain with that name in it? You're the one who needs to read and think carefully before responding. To answer the actual question, the slavic word for "mountain" means "mountain range", not "mountain peak" like it does in English. So the Black Mountain in question is the mountain range that Montenegro is located on. IIRC it's part of the same chain of mountain ranges as the Alps, that chain extends across the Balkans all the way to the Blacks Sea.
10:16 Actually it might be the other way around. Late lactose tolerance is the abnormality. We had a lot of dairy products. So being able to eat it, became a survival trait during times of famine.
8:29 Well, you can do that all year round. There is a wooden pathway going around the big concrete block at the borders, and there are even marks showing what county you are in.
+ But in winter you do not even realize you are on a lake. At least when you don’t think about this, you are just staying on a area without trees (it’s a small lake)
11:36 we were there first as the 13 colonies and where most people settled in the beginning with densely populated cities, which became even more densely populated over time. Eventually people spread out to the west and while those cities are also densely populated, it's not as densely populated as the East Coast because of the history there. Not to mention that more on the west coast in Central America is where a lot of the farmers are
Just to be a giga nerd, Georgia (the state) has nothing to do with the country. I have no clue how the country got its name but i know the state took its name from the colony which got its name from King George II of Great Britain and Hanover. Similarly, Virginia is names after Elizabeth I "the virgin queen" and North/South Carolina are named after Charles II (the cool one on horrible histories)
Irish hate the British for things like being colonized by Britain, the potato famine, religious discrimination and oppression, etc. I'm sure you're aware of this. Just leaving this comment for context to anyone reading that the Irish aren't just waking up and deciding that England sucks, England shat the bed and Ireland had to lie in it. But England never did. So it's easy to forget and to feel fuzzy feelings when you live in the nation that benefitted from the colonization of another place (re: british loving irish) "Throughout the entire period of the Famine, Ireland was exporting enormous quantities of food to England. In "Ireland Before and After the Famine," Cormac Ó Gráda points out, “Although the potato crop failed, the country was still producing and exporting more than enough grain crops to feed the population. But that was a 'money crop' and not a 'food crop' and could not be interfered with.” Up to 75 percent of Irish soil was devoted to wheat, oats, barley and other crops that were grown for export and shipped abroad while the people starved." "Cecil Woodham-Smith, noted scholar and author, wrote in “The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849” that “…no issue has provoked so much anger or so embittered relations between the two countries (England and Ireland) as the indisputable fact that huge quantities of food were exported from Ireland to England throughout the period when the people of Ireland were dying of starvation.” " Source: www.ighm.org/learn.html It's not an academic footnote when people in your family line had their lives cut short by a tragedy of human making, and those that survived only did so by struggling through severe hardship.
Irish hate the British for things like being colonized by Britain, the potato famine, religious discrimination and oppression, etc. I'm sure you're aware of this. Just leaving this comment for context to anyone reading that the Irish aren't just waking up and deciding that England sucks, England shat the bed and Ireland had to lie in it. But England never did. So it's easy to forget and to feel fuzzy feelings when you live in the nation that benefitted from the colonization of another place (re: british loving irish) "Throughout the entire period of the Famine, Ireland was exporting enormous quantities of food to England. In "Ireland Before and After the Famine," Cormac Ó Gráda points out, “Although the potato crop failed, the country was still producing and exporting more than enough grain crops to feed the population. But that was a 'money crop' and not a 'food crop' and could not be interfered with.” Up to 75 percent of Irish soil was devoted to wheat, oats, barley and other crops that were grown for export and shipped abroad while the people starved." "Cecil Woodham-Smith, noted scholar and author, wrote in “The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849” that “…no issue has provoked so much anger or so embittered relations between the two countries (England and Ireland) as the indisputable fact that huge quantities of food were exported from Ireland to England throughout the period when the people of Ireland were dying of starvation.” " Source: www.ighm.org/learn.html It's not an academic footnote when people in your family line had their lives cut short by a tragedy of human making, and those that survived only did so by struggling through severe hardship. Also an absolutely wild fact: "During the period 1845-50, Britain’s total expenditure in Ireland was £7 million, or 0.01 percent of its gross national product during the period. Irish expenditures from local taxes and landlord borrowing totaled £8.5 million. In the previous decade, the British government had given slaveholders in the West Indies £20 million as compensation for ending slavery." Source: www.ighm.org/learn.html Britain had pity money for slaveholders but couldn't be bothered to expend a dime to prevent Irish from dying of starvation in an artificially-enforced famine.
2:45 🤓 some American borders are determined by nature, such as the Rio Grande dividing Mexico and Texas, and NE US getting divided by the Great Lakes between US and Canada
11:32 It’s a regional dialect from Upstate New York. Yknow, Albany. People from Utica wouldn’t get it. The steamed hams there are actually grilled, and taste like Krustyburgers’, but they’re actually an old family recipe.
0:48 We have one other little guy who uses Fahrenheit, it's Liberia 🇱🇷. Also the British territory of the Cayman Islands uses Fahrenheit along with the U.S. So we are not fully alone. But still using the Metric System seems to make more sense. & yes I am American.
Yep & it's capital, Monrovia is named after the former U.S president of James Monroe. Also Liberia has it's own currency which is the Liberian Dollar but the U.S Dollar is widely accepted.
