• db2@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    School fucked me up, it was jarring to learn the US and Australia are comparable in size. The maps always depicted it as a little island.

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      2 days ago

      And, accordingly, how large Brazil actually is, which is not quite as distorted for its location touching the equator.