Bizarre Geography Facts From Around the World

[@isaacthemonke233]

Here's a random but interesting subject that I wouldn't mind seeing on this channel: The many wild animals that have been introduced to North, Latin, and South America. From the invasive to the neutral to the beneficial. From animals as big as a hippo, wild water buffalo, or hog to as small as a worm, mussel, and mouse

[@DrNothing23]

Throw in plants, as well. Kudzu anyone?

[@isaacthemonke233]

@@DrNothing23 All because some rich folks in the South 120 years ago thought they looked pretty in their gardens

[@celineshoup6039]

@@DrNothing23 As a former Georgian, I consider kudzu a hostile enemy.

[@celineshoup6039]

@@isaacthemonke233 I thought kudzu was brought over to contain soil erosion.

[@SkunkApe407]

​@@celineshoup6039it was. Nobody has ever planted that crap in their gardens.

[@ingridfong-daley5899]

I love Mr. Weird History's enthusiasm discussing the antipodes--he was even more delightfully zinger-y and/or wow-zer-y than usual during that segment of today's video. :)

[@basm620inbelair9]

That’s because he was impersonating Ken Jennings … 😂

[@TheMick126]

Listening to the Nunavut segment I already have a headache now I have a new headache within the headache I have now compounding the 1 I'm trying 2 get rid of

[@ChristopherBurtraw]

For the last segment, my favorite related fact is that there is a chunk of Canada (part of the Ontario peninsula) that is south of the US. I live near Detroit, and when in downtown, we can look to Windsor across the river while facing south. Some say this is what Journey meant when they sang "born and raised in South Detroit" - they meant Windsor.

[@Kogan0000]

I think you enjoyed saying as much as I enjoyed listening to "an island on a lake on an island on a lake on an island" 😂😂

[@wardarcade7452]

OK, here's one: Not only is Windsor, Ontario the southernmost point of mainland Canada but it's the only part of the entire US/Canadian border where one must travel due NORTH to reach the United States- specifically Detroit, Michigan!

[@bobthecomputerguy]

Minneapolis is north of Toronto, Canada, but south of Paris, France.

[@lp-xl9ld]

You were referring to the Prime Meridian when you really meant the International Date Line (Prime Meridian = 0 degrees longitude; International Date Line = 180 degrees longitude).

[@ChristopherBurtraw]

Came to say the same

[@joshlindig5853]

I love the megadeth reference, but if it’s Antarctica, it should be Gwar because they’re from Antarctica

[@williambarnes3125]

Just saw them a few months ago at rocklahoma. They ALWAYS put on a good show

[@DrNothing23]

I believe there's an area in Antarctica where it hasn't rained for over a million years.

[@williambarnes3125]

Alright, ya got me. Where?

[@NASCARFAN93100]

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. John F. Kennedy

[@celineshoup6039]

Since you mentioned Russia's 11 time zones, I am compelled to mention China has only 1.

[@SidewalkCitizenLA]

Russia only CLAIMS more land. Vast portions of Siberia are mostly empty but the people that do live there barely pay attention to what goes on in Moscow and don't consider themselves part of Russia.

[@SiPakRubah]

They only have those lands because of oil And if they found Alaska's gold first, their territory would be until Alaska

[@Coltonmoore79]

I dont consider myself part of America, yet I live in America. Is that how that works?

[@SkunkApe407]

​@@Coltonmoore79no, but if you don't like it here, we have open borders. Unlike China or North Korea, we aren't going to make you stay here. Go to Panama. They speak English and use the American dollar. You can go pretend not to be one of us, without changing much of anything. We have over one million immigrants that come here each year, because they WANT to be here. Do the decent thing and make room for one of them.

[@Coltonmoore79]

@@SkunkApe407 it's obvious that you've never applied for any international visa.

[@tremorsfan]

Russia also spans two continents, Europe and Asia. Hence the name Eurasia.

[@DeltaDemon1]

France is the country with the most times zones. The reason for this is that, unlike the UK for example, its overseas holdings are considered part of France. So there are 12 time zones for France (or 13 if you count parts of Antarctica).

[@SkunkApe407]

Not all of France's overseas territories are considered France, and not all of them are part of the EU. But even if we did go by your criteria, the US still holds seven more territories than France, all of which are spread across the globe. And as an added bonus, none of our territories or former colonies are currently dealing with coups or revolts.

[@ingridfong-daley5899]

@2:04 "Every spot on the Earth has an antipode" but everybody knows no matter where you're digging from, you always come out the other side in China, upside-down.

[@SkunkApe407]

Not in Florida. If you dig too deep here, you wind up in Waterworld. I messed up one time as a kid, and Kevin Costner kept popping outta the hole. Had to whack him with a shovel to make him go away. It was like a big ass game of Whack-a-Mole.😂

[@ingridfong-daley5899]

Hahahaha :) @@SkunkApe407

[@Unicornvomit456]

PLEASE do a historical Christmas video!

[@rileyfuckingrifle]

Let's talk about how it used to be spooky, please.

[@a_Certain_Scientific_Absurdist]

8:14 - No. France has the most time zones. Of course, continental France, which is “familiar” to us, is located within the same time zone. However, together with the overseas departments and regions (Département et région d'outre-mer), it is the state of France that contains 12 time zones. In Russia there are only 11 of them.

[@DrNothing23]

Let's not forget the historical, "The sun never sets on the British Empire" line. How many did Britain have, historically, at the peak?

[@SkunkApe407]

France owns seven fewer territories than the US. The territories held by the US literally span the entire globe. If we go by this ridiculous criteria, the US would have more time zones than France. As an added bonus, there isn't a single US territory or former US colony that is currently dealing with a coup or revolt.

[@bunnybustard5526]

Can you talk about the history of Paraguay? :D

[@DrNothing23]

Speaking of, if you haven't yet seen it, check out the video "Happy in Paraguay". :)

[@AstraStars400]

Incredible

[@dominator5498]

@7:40 Sarah Palin never said She can see Russia from her House. Tina Fey said that on SNL. Mandella effect but poor research on Your part.

[@BeeMcDee]

6:32 the only continent, yes, but there is a single country that also holds this distinction: Kiribati, in the Pacific. Previously known as the Gilbert Islands.

[@JohnSmith-rw2yn]

Whilst I love weird history, you are not weird geography 😂 Certainly no David Attenborough that's for sure 😅

[@maryaltshuller717]

How about one talking about the difference between the Sahara, the Gobi and Death Valley.

[@StrangeHistory-tr2xs]

So glad you mentioned Ireland! Thanks, this was great

[@katroyal6309]

They do have a name- recursive islands. Alaska is the northernmost, easternmost, and westernmost state.

[@FunFactsFactoryYT]

Denmark also shares border with Canada after a recent split of an island between the two countries

[@jimmyd4282]

“Like a bird & Randy Johnson’s pitch 😂

[@jaz1551]

There are currently 38 time zones, way more than the simply 24 mentioned. Many, like Newfoundland or India, are offset by 30 minutes while for example New Zealand and (Central West) Australia have 45 minute offsets

[@auntvesuvi3872]

Thanks for this! 🌏

[@mudman619]

the craziest fact I've learned recently is that the Moon could fit inside Australia . . . you don't think Australia is that big or the moon is that small!

[@mikewayne9110]

How many in Uranus?

[@btetschner]

A+ video! Fascinating geography facts!

[@MetallicAAlabamA]

MetallicA missed a great chance to play "Trapped under Ice" during their Freeze em All concert in Antarctica. You know what? MegadetH should play the Sahara or the Gobi. That would be awesome!

[@ShadoeHaze]

I love the voiceover artist!

[@J.A.Smith2397]

Nice

[@spannerturnerMWO]

Mount Erebus is also the site of a horrific plane crash that resulted in the death of over 250 people.

[@UncleMikeDrop]

The island in a lake on an island 8n a lake on an island would facilitate a magnificent fortress.

[@Cenotaur1]

I spotted a place in Canada called 'Dildo'. It's in Newfoundland - or near enough.

[@Rydonattelo]

There is 1.5 million Ulster-Scots in Northern Ireland that really don't like being called Irish. So remember that when visiting the island.

[@joandeigan7826]

Very interesting 😮

[@patratyrell24]

This was top tier!!!!

[@PBBoogie99]

Love the Megadeth reference.

[@destinyl7879]

My favorite narrator

[@itachiuchiha7570]

I love this channel and also chili

[@Star-dj1kw]

❤ fascinating

[@RedNerd_42]

The narrator makes this channel!!

[@pfkmsandiego]

awesome. ❤ peace

[@maniac3449]

People might think that Pakistan is all desert but there are more glaciers found in Pakistan than in Russia or the US, with more than 7000 glaciers, Pakistan has the most glaciers outside of polar regions

[@taoofjester4113]

Australia...a olace so scary even volcanoes were like fuck that and peaced out.

[@btetschner]

4:34 My friend, who was my last roommate in college, later went on a Peace Corp mission to Lesotho.

[@Paskalion]

8:30 John Denver's West Virginia song is about west of Virginia, not the West Virginia state, since Shenandoah River and Blue Ridge Mountain is mostly in Virginia, not West Virginia.. lol

[@nidan206]

I thought it was Ryan Island that had the island on a lake

[@alexdawson868]

Because that would make too much sense :))

[@miss.g-shun-w]

I love Tom lol

[@ragdolltrucking]

if we were allowed to know facts about antarctica then they would have made the list too im sure

[@kirstengabrielli8294]

Omg weird people stop commenting! And to the Weird History commentator, you are hilarious!💜🕺🏽

[@professorsprout3382]

Man at the end of a good day I can't wait to enjoy 4:20 and a beer and watch this with the dog. A stoner can parley the Anidode into any convo. If they loose this narrator and he like decides to not be a sell out and only do "off broadway" life will not be worth living. No, I'm not catastrophizing again. Sorry for the misspelling my IPA a hazy just kicked in.

[@maryalicefrazier2817]

For everyone who swears and argues that the Earth is flat, I say the Earth is either a Trapezoid or a double helix.

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

I already knew most of this stuff, but this was really interesting, anyway. 🙂

[@kirstengabrielli8294]

Omg weird people stop commenting! And to the commentator, you are hilarious!💜🕺🏽

[@babscabs1987]

They should've called it North Virginia.

[@kristincox0212]

I wonder why West Virginia didn’t call themselves North Virginia.

[@sethmaki1333]

Reno is further west than Los Angeles.

[@joermnyc]

No need to island-lake-island-etc. Just call them Droste Islands.

[@BOY_NAME_]

He said the thing 7:00

[@nacekejzar]

Greenland is further north south east and west than iceland

[@Arlecchino_Gatto]

Megadeth! For the win!!!!!

[@billyyank2198]

7:43 Sarah Palin never said that! That was Tina Fey playing a caricature of Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live! Get it straight!

[@williammetz7500]

Palin never said she could see Russia from her house.

[@MichaelScheele]

Correct. Tina Fey, pretending to be Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live, said that.

[@rileyfuckingrifle]

The fact that so many people believe it might say something about her though.

[@williammetz7500]

@@rileyfuckingrifle or them.🤷🏻‍♂️

[@lynemac2539]

And Marie Antoinette never said, "Let them eat cake," and Frankenstein is the name of the scientist, not the creature.

[@btetschner]

3:15 Hamlet - A small village or group of houses (Collins Dictionary)

[@chrisautry1958]

Talking about boring through thru the earth? If you could go all the way thru the center of the earth if you jumped in the hole what would happen? Would you stop at the center? Jumping in you would be going down, thru the hole, would you come out the other side? Because you would be coming out the other side going up?

[@jakeheinzelman3908]

Usa and Russia have the same time zones at 11

[@rileyfuckingrifle]

How does the US have 11? There's only 4 in the continental US.

[@kl2894]

Can personally attest to the spiders as large as your face in Australia. Not an experience I ever want to repeat 😬

[@SkunkApe407]

As a Floridian, I find Australia to be the same as home, but with slightly different animals. We have gators, they have crocs. We have deer, they have 'roos. They have the Eastern Brown Snake, we have rattlesnakes, moccasins, and pythons. They have drop bears, we have iguanas that literally fall out of trees when we get a cold snap. (I'm not joking. It really happens.) The only difference between us and Australia is that, if Florida ever had an emu problem, we'd win that fight. Florida Man don't play that flightless bird BS. We taunt hurricanes and throw alligators into drive-thru windows down here. We ain't getting licked by a bunch of overgrown chickens.😂

[@kl2894]

@@SkunkApe407 Those overgrown chickens are cunning SOBs

[@SkunkApe407]

@@kl2894 yeah, but have you read any Florida Man stories? We're a wiley bunch, too! Worst case scenario? The Florida Man Army becomes a mounted cavalry.🤣

[@kl2894]

@@SkunkApe407 Yeah but your alligators are backyard pets compared to crocodiles. Even our fruit bats are deadly to humans 😂

[@SkunkApe407]

@@kl2894 not gonna argue that one. We have crocs in South Florida. They're tame compared to your crocs, but still meaner than our gators. Your crocs will have a go at ya, just for the sake of it. Nasty buggers, the lot of 'em. That's why I hunt 'em. Can't eat me if I eat them first.

[@btetschner]

0:35 In the film Eurotrip (2004), they backpack through Europe.

[@GotTheBestLigma]

Excusí, excusí 😂

[@thevegantitian]

Earth is a sphere

[@rismarck]

The bird joke was to soon 😞

[@kirkmorrison6131]

I have been all the way over Western Virginia, if you go straight up you will land in Ohio

[@btetschner]

1:39 One of my favorite MMA fights is George St. Pierre.

[@Geek37664]

The antipodal point for me is probably where MH 370 is.

[@TexasTimeLord]

China has 1 time zone

[@missywink1504]

Russia is MASSIVE!!!

[@btetschner]

Eating ANOTHER Weird History meal, this time a lunch! Eating RED BARON PEPPERONI PIZZA* and drinking WILD CHERRY CAPRI SUN^... while watching this Weird History video! * From the Weird History Food video "The History of the Frozen Pizza" ^ From the Weird History Food video "Facts About ‘90s Lunch Box Items That Make Us Kinda Miss School"

[@btetschner]

Since I have seen the second thumbnail recommendation, I am going to watch the first (What It's Like Living in Diomedes,...) and: x Victorian Era Opium Dens x What It Was Like to Live At Versailles

[@btetschner]

3:50 Mind = BLOWN

[@CwL-1984]

The earth is flat I tells you..............

[@kellyshomemadekitchen]

I love your channel but I must admit this particular video is the most boring I’ve seen. And I enjoy World Geography immensely, so I’m really surprised to be leaving this comment. All due respect though!

[@timothydurkan]

I ❤ Weird History. Except when the girl narrates.

[@gabrielagarciamayagoitia1599]

Sorry, I could not finish watching. Got bored with France's borders.

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

Flat-Earthers..where you at?

[@JoeToz]

If the Earth was a sphere that is.

[@jaygee6738]

😂🤣

[@ridureyu]

I believe in Fiat Earth. The earth is a car.

[@Adam-M-]

​@@ridureyuSpecifically, a Kia, which is why it's always messed up.

[@bunnybustard5526]

ok B.o.B.

[@cattibingo]

Don't be crazy, we all know it's a cube

[@angeedesierra]

2nd

[@DandeeDonna]

Interesting but leave out the silly interjections please. Just the bare, interesting facts

[@cattibingo]

Less cringe boomer dad jokes please

[@arthurg7894]

The accents and voices lately are so much cringe

[@KarlJayce.]

Do more videos about Victorian Times and Perhaps jack the ripper and such topics. It seems to bring more views and we all love such topics.. i 🖤 you