18 Minutes Of Useless Geography Facts To Brighten Your Night

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[@FewVidsJustComments]

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

[@user-kq5ke5yb6k]

LOL. I suspect it would go worse than Round 1 for Japan.

[@NecromancyForKids]

Considering they don't really have their own forces, I don't think that would go well

[@gentlemanvanilla]

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"

[@stiller9014]

omg thanks for typing out that message i literally couldn't catch it even at .25x speed pausing and playing constantly

[@kl--k]

@@stiller9014 pro tip on deskop you can press the < and > buttons to move frame by frame

[@stiller9014]

wasnt on desktop but that's good to know

[@dvision4203]

Thanks!!

[@RRW359]

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.

[@octaviusmorlock]

While that may _technically_ be true. It's stupid.

[@theenchantedbook]

@@octaviusmorlock you're stupid

[@TheRealEtaoinShrdlu]

Than

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

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!

[@_Shadbolt_]

Thank you Supreme Leader.

[@eugenelevchenko9422]

Wow Supreme Leader, I didn't know you were interested in Australian geography supreeme leader

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

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!

[@nedoran5758]

Toycat is right, fry bread is frickin delicious

[@cuttinaboot]

You ever fried a pancake at the end of making a full breakfast? (Scottish for me but I’m not opposed to full English ate a couple) shits supper hard

[@WasThisMail]

toy cat is yes

[@saintwumples4403]

Trueeee

[@razberrie27]

this did brighten my night, thank u :)

[@Bretkane]

Toycat you make the best vids whether its geography or minecraft

[@Sunday_Woodward]

Time for a Toycat video.

[@aarbaarb8290]

Howd you know it was late at night 👀

[@xfreja]

because he uploaded this at 3am uk time

[@PizzaPowerXYZ]

He's watching you through the window

[@IkkezzUsedEmber]

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.

[@effexon]

aint that pretty common colonizing method... who cares of remote jungle and forests, main ports are the thing. Those who hold money and trade, often hold influence. chinese 1800s trade by gunpoint sounds same, although japanese only accepted dutch and blocked others. everyone tried though at the time.

[@melancholymelon5316]

The Portuguese were also in Japan prior to the Dutch. They controlled Nagasaki and had a lot of influence through trade and Jesuit missionaries.

[@effexon]

@@melancholymelon5316 were jesuits oldschool equivalent of UN/"peacekeeping" army of NGOs nowadays goes everywhere? seems useful if they convert people to your mindset and religion, then locals are more understanding of your presence there.

[@IkkezzUsedEmber]

@@melancholymelon5316 True. I'm just not as well read on Portuguese history, so other than them being there before the Dutch, I didn't know anything of more detail, so I decided it wasn't my place to mention that in case I got something wrong.

[@feyetho9524]

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

[@leaf69]

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

[@NeonBeeCat]

Did he leave bedrock open lol

[@nullFoo]

You published this at 2pm in my time zone

[@jasonwyrick3413]

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

[@estraume]

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

[@Nooticus]

This is too niche even for toycat to know i think 🤭

[@_Shadbolt_]

What's the story there?!

[@bk44228]

One of the best channels on KZbin. I'm not joking

[@loganpeters7543]

Straight up. 2cat is one of the 2 channels for which I will disappear from whatever I am doing (work, funeral, etc) to watch the video immediately.

[@spanjool]

@@loganpeters7543 funeral is crazy

[@spanjool]

@@loganpeters7543 dont mean i disagree tho

[@MadTamB]

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

[@tadhgallen1464]

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

[@JennaGetsCreative]

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.

[@supersuede91]

my favourite videos

[@saintwumples4403]

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

[@vova-l]

Exactly what I needed right now for doing late night tasks

[@GaviLazan]

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.

[@briancd37]

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

[@loganpeters7543]

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

[@JackBlackNinja]

great vid

[@smoaty4891]

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

[@WasThisMail]

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

[@MacAnters]

I am vacationing in America so this indeed brightened my evening

[@tjvanderyacht9806]

Where are you visiting in America? Welcome!

[@MacAnters]

@@tjvanderyacht9806 i actually just landed back in the Netherlands 😬 I was staying at lake India in Worcester, MA, which was an amazing last day for after the NYC and Boston visits. Will definitely visit your beautiful country again!

[@CarJul666]

These fact will definitely stick with me.

[@maciborson5932]

the perfect video

[@rileynavarra7652]

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

[@Bigslam1993]

I watch this in the early afternoon

[@duquefranklintrouble6635]

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

[@-cransberries-9320]

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

[@cuttinaboot]

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

[@Chilliestbean13]

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. 👀

[@rafciopranks3570]

Won't catch me watching 2cat at 4 am

[@adipy8912]

It's not useless. You can make a quiz

[@qwesx]

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

[@Dreamprism]

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

[@salamandersnail7705]

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

[@mrewan6221]

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.

[@monferno1]

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

[@samsam21amb]

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.

[@70n24]

0.01% introduction, 99.99% facts Great service

[@patfre]

There’s a lot of mistakes

[@duckpotat9818]

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

[@FiveMissiles]

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

[@wyzolol]

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

[@user-kq5ke5yb6k]

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.)

[@lvseka]

Is the arctic circle more famous than the equator?

[@Roonasaur]

13:35 You just said "doodoo" lol

[@achillesmichael5705]

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

[@timothy-js]

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.

[@JC20XX]

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

[@johnlabus7359]

Alaska is both further east and west of Canada.

[@probably_sh]

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

[@Lucas-wn3te]

This upload has confirmed my suspicions you live on nautical time

[@macconchradha5324]

Thx

[@gaminglizard2931]

Hi ibxtoycat

[@Ultraw]

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

[@whynot6644]

Toycat defo still in that teenage sleeping phase 😅

[@sizanogreen9900]

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

[@mrewan6221]

Yes, Australia is not part of the New World, but it's also not Old World (despite how long indigenous people have been around)! The term "New World" came from the European "discoveries" of the Americas. (Despite people already living there and doing quite well for themselves.) The "Third World" was the European "discoveries" and "exploration" of the rest of the world, mainly Africa and Asia. (Again, despite the people living there quite successfully). Australia was "discovered" by Europeans in this "Third World" phase. Australia was a Third World country. Economists and politicans later changed the definitions to describe poor countries (i.e. exploited by Europe) as "Third World", and promoted the affluent countries (e.g. Australia, New Zealand) to be "Western" countries, even though it's hard to get much further East than New Zealand. The economically acceptable parts of Asia stopped being Third World, and are in some sort of limbo waiting for a label. Maybe "Far East" isn't the value judgement it once was. Now "New World" is a mostly forgotten term except in a Dvořák symphony. "Old World" is mostly used in biology, and includes Europe, Africa, and Asia. Only "Third World" is still used, but not to show European discovery, but as a denigrating term for Africa and less affluent parts of Asia.

[@Bretkane]

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

[@Jade93972]

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

[@Michalik-ps9gk]

5:49 lol is that an adizz pro thumbnail?

[@jacuhb8445]

14:15 i heard that zombie 😂

[@SkyHigh64]

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.

[@HeyItsRose18]

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

[@VishalKhopkar1296]

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

[@meritfocus]

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

[@user-hz2hz3nq2r]

Dude needs a Xan

[@jamez6398]

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??

[@mohammed44_]

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

[@JC20XX]

You got me

[@Doeper__]

0:50 why do i hear a Minecraft zombie xD

[@GamingWithKJ_YT]

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

[@xfreja]

it’s 3

[@corneliusmcmuffin3256]

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

[@corneliusmcmuffin3256]

Also Japan was (and still is) partially controlled by Russia since they still occupy the Kuril Islands.

[@patfre]

Most of of Russia isn’t really Europe so it’s actually depends

[@jussischoemakers4879]

A perfect rectangle is impossible on a globe anyway 🤭

[@cuttinaboot]

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

[@NeonBeeCat]

THE SUN NEVER SETS IN THE USA WOOO

[@SquishyOfCinder]

Are you sitting on a bouncy ball?

[@billypathy]

I can hear Minecraft zombie from the first channel

[@suggestion8284]

thank you for bringing us joy every upload, been watching you for almost a decade now and you’re still the goat

[@snomcultist189]

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

[@corneliusmcmuffin3256]

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

[@patfre]

Depends on what exactly you mean if your talking about longitude and latitude then your only right about north and south. If your talking about physical size then yes you are right

[@AethelwulfBretwalda]

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 :(

[@lloydgush]

Ethiopia was never colonized.

[@VianoMusicAcademy]

15:45 Nan & Pop’s Dildo Souvenir Shop

[@dizzy_jump]

hello im spycat

[@marcosettembre]

Guam follows UTC+10 not UTC+8

[@oxrocks385]

14:14 minecraft zombie

[@codexe.]

ummm the us was not uninhabited

[@joemiller947]

Are you also an insomniac toycat?

[@pidgeotroll]

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.

[@AethelwulfBretwalda]

Napa winemakers be wildin with their experimentations. Eat your heart out, DOCG!

[@Bretkane]

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

[@patfre]

This makes no sense I think your talking about Canada

[@Bretkane]

@@patfre for us states. Alaska is obviously furthest north. The Aluetian islands extend further west than any other state, then cross the anitmeridian into the eastern hemisphere.

[@patfre]

@@Bretkane I see but also you got it wrong Aluetian islands are still quite far away from the antimeridian. But Rat islands are past it

[@lukebaker5460]

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

[@mohammed44_]

It morning in west asia/ middle east

[@joemungus6063]

Goodnight from Arizona :)

[@thecodemachine]

Kangaroo meat is terrible. Its like very very cheap beef.

[@IBraveNX]

Why you gotta do Hull like that :(

[@TheRealEtaoinShrdlu]

Because Hull.