Brazil is Closer To Canada Than To Brazil

[@alphawolf4643]

Somehow I have a feeling this isn’t the first time a British guy has uttered the phrase “cause Ireland doesn’t count” throughout history.

[@michaela2634]

:(

[@mabimabi212]

:((

[@thisguy976]

That is precisely what is wrong with a lot of British people (hence brexit and a general imperial attitude to everything disguised as 'banter').

[@henrymarks1632]

@@thisguy976 bruh it ain’t that deep

[@thisguy976]

@@henrymarks1632 bruh.. ignorance is bliss init

[@ypob2007]

And that’s one of the struggles of traveling as a Brazilian: everything is so goddamn far apart

[@titus_philemon]

Vero 🇧🇷✈️🇧🇷✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️🇧🇷

[@riograndedosulball248]

As a southerner, you either go more south to Argentina, or you have to make three scales still in Brazil to get anywhere else

[@ypob2007]

@@riograndedosulball248 pois é mano, pais grande do caramba, cada estado é do tamanho dum pais kkkkkk

[@PaulB-17]

Perth Australia Says "hold my beer"

[@titus_philemon]

@@PaulB-17 Australia is smaller than Brazil tho... Our issue is not being far from other countries, but being far from itself (Northern Brazil is far from South Brazil that's far from west and east).

[@than217]

"The Netherlands is our third closest country because Ireland doesn't count." Comedy like this is why I love this channel.

[@dancegregorydance6933]

Coming from an Englishman... oof makes it hurt that much more.

[@dominicthompson82]

...comedy?

[@thisguy976]

No.

[@jasonfischer8946]

Somehow we went from Brazil and Canada to the Caboose Bar in Tennessee to talking about stupid American borders ( and being a resident of Maryland I can give you and official pass on that) to Brunei and Indonesia. It's almost like a fever dream.

[@Hexagonian]

Toycat's brain works like a horse on a treadmill that's crazyglued to the roof of a merry-go-round flying in space at 0.6 times the speed of crayons in a vacuum launched by a F1 race car driving off the take-off ramp of an italian military aircraft carrier.

[@rushthezeppelin]

@@Hexagonian this is the most accurate description of ADHD I've ever seen in my life.

[@PX3U]

Possible fun fact, part of the reason the maine boarder is weird, is when drawing out the map they were following a river, but started following the wrong river, so from there they just went southwest in a line until they decided it was good. Not sure how true this is, but heard it in class a while ago and it makes sense.

[@colatf2]

Those pesky maine boarders

[@miniepicness]

that seems pretty true to me. i checked and the st john river is the border in one spot, but then they started following other rivers and some lakes, and then it goes straight lines until its back to the st john river.

[@roxxma]

Everybody knows that Maine's got only one border: New Hampshire 😜 (My cousins from Grand Falls, New Brunswick beg to differ, but what do they know?)

[@Yes-r4g]

Toycat: "1939s Germany" Also toycat: zooms in on Xinjiang

[@carlosmagalhaes7109]

Based

[@Yuvraj.]

20:50 This actually happened! Before Nova Scotia was Nova Scotia, it was part of Acadia, a french colony similar to Quebec. When the british and the french fought in 1755, the british left Quebec nominally French but forcefully evicted large amounts of french speaking Acadians out of present day Nova Scotia and settled their own english and scottish there instead. These Acadians moved in mass to Louisiana among other places, and their culture began to morph into what was first called Acadjun and eventually Cajun culture.

[@johnplaysgame]

And that's how Acadia National Park was named. If you didn't know, Acadia National Park is one of the main reasons why people go to Maine. It's a big tourist destination. Maine is very close to Nova Scotia.

[@codygriffin299]

Thank you for mentioning this! I'm from Quebec and had a really good Acadian friend (from the French part of New Brunswick). They still live on, but to much less extent than what could have been.

[@nightlight73]

@@codygriffin299 well we still thrive down here in Louisiana

[@angus5427]

I'm going to assume with the name Nova Scotia most of the settlers were Scottish

[@SandaaaGW2]

Also, Brazil is closer to Africa (Sierra Leone) than Continental USA.

[@jeanarthur760]

The westhern part of continental Brazil is closer to Africa than it is to its easthern part

[@ouroboros5474]

@@jeanarthur760 I do not think so...

[@jeanarthur760]

@@ouroboros5474 it is.

[@jeanarthur760]

@@ouroboros5474 the most westhern part is in the state of Paraíba and the easthern is in the state of Acre.

[@ouroboros5474]

@@jeanarthur760 It's called eastern, man. Ponta do Seixas is the *easternmost* point of mainland Brazil.

[@DanielOliveira-ju3zx]

Being a Brazilian I can confirm, everything is super far

[@Rorther]

I need 4h by car heading every direction just to leave my state, and at least 20h (closest point) to reach another country (Paraguay) by car. It's actually crazy.

[@nedoran5758]

Northern Maine has towns where people fly the Canadian flag but not because they're loyalists or something but because they're french speakers. Maine fought a war for that territory, not the US, just Maine. 1 person died, of pneumonia. The Aroostook War.

[@stevenwilgus5422]

When the islands are spread over the distance, Indonesia is one of the largest countries in the world. It also has a large population. It spans the width of the North American Continent.

[@BS-vx8dg]

It's difficult for this older person who knows a lot of history (and has seen a bit as well) to find these things strange or surprising. But kudos for the title topic; it *is* pretty cool that Brazil's northernmost point is closer to Canada than to Brazil's southernmost point.

[@mooeminou]

You should write a book if you're so smart!

[@KatzeRegi]

Fact about Poland: Before WWII it was far more east than today. Towns that today are in eastern Poland were in western Poland back then

[@sirnosferaty]

When you think you're "Coming to brazil" but you end up traveling the world from canada to Netherlands and messing with the irish along the way.

[@skan5728]

Hey toycat I made that map on the thumbnail, I love your videos bro

[@ibx2cat]

Did the twitter guy take it from you? Cool you like the video either way :)

[@skan5728]

@@ibx2cat yeah it's been reposted everywhere on the internet. Great video as always!

[@WasThisMail]

You managed to roast the only two states I lived in with 10 minutes of each other

[@MrAsianPie]

Title : About Brazil Halfway through the video : "'Great drinks, great prices, great food." I'll be the judge of that!"

[@governmented8401]

as someone from nova scotia, it is honoured for someone to talk about us for once

[@dylanon3k]

Toycat: Maybe the Netherlands is our closest neighbor after France Ireland: *sad potato noises*

[@999goat]

Fun fact: Brazil is closer to the UK (SGSSI) than Brazil

[@yesmaam8094]

"Netherlands is our second closest country because Ireland doesn’t count.” Spoken like a true brit toycat.

[@kaizen2820]

"Speaking of 1930's Germany" *zooms in on Xinjiang*

[@najmkailil7191]

21:00 I see what you're doing there ToyCat ... -1 000 000 social credit 😂

[@thesuperjohn57]

Its funny you mention kicking out the Nova Scotians, but that's what the British did in the mid 18th century where they kicked out the Acadians (OG French speaking community distinct from Quebecois French Canadians) and resettled the land with British or Anglo Canadian farmers.

[@tiltltt]

"The US could take all of Canada" Could they? Canada is really big and it is full of nicely-angry canadians.

[@banditkeithkingofduelmonsters]

To be fair the u.s. only needs to take a small portion of it to get nearly every citizen living there.

[@kajura8684]

nearly all the population is right on the border and the parts that aren't in west canada live in very flat terrain. not to mention the insane size of the us military compared to the canadian one. the only parts that could hold out for any significant time are probably mountain people in the rockies

[@RAiNfORAiNbOW]

im just a kid but heres my stupid opinion anyway US can take any country if it wants it hard enough

[@BlockWorks]

Us: Invading Canada Canadians: Could you please fock off? Thanks

[@AK-sw1nj]

@@RAiNfORAiNbOW America lost to vietnamese rice farmers lol

[@Onibushou]

My question about St. Pierre isn't "Why is this bit of France over here?" but rather "Why does this not share a time zone with Newfoundland (or even France)?"

[@Matth16kero]

Brasileiro aqui vendo o vídeo!!! Já ganhou mais um inscrito!!

[@sizanogreen9900]

Hey toycat, there is some real interesting stuff happening with socotra, the UAE and Saudi Arabia right now which might make for an interesting video:) Specifically the latter ones are dumping piles of cash on the poor yemeni archipelago having basically bought the loyalties of the population allready. Also the UAE are paying the salaries of local officials and are building up infrastructure specifically geared to tourism. Seems to me like they are eying a referendum in the future to maybe annex the place. Also did I mention that the UAE is reportedly building a military base there with israeli assistance? And that the archipelago sits at a strategic point?

[@GoblinDave152]

7:46: "why does he have a sniper rifle" Lol probably because there's bears up in Alaska

[@catoflado4977]

A good thing to point is that the world is round, and not flat like the mercartor projection. So the parts of canada that are in the eastern side, are much closer to South America than the parts that are in the western side. Much cloeser than it apears in the mercartor map at least. That's mostly why Nova Scotia is closer to northern Brazil than Southern Brazil. Besides that, Brazil is much more huge than it looks in the mercartor projection too. Bigger than the continental USA for exemple.

[@standporter]

You EXACTLY remind me of what I sometimes put my dad through. Rambling on and on about crazy geographical and historical facts, linking them together and finding interesting connections, and often randomly switching gears altogether. Guess I'm not the only one!

[@kevinhull7925]

BTW, at the time of the Alaska purchase, St. Petersburg was the capital of Russia. (It was the Bolsheviks that moved the capital back to Moscow.)

[@SemiHypercube]

12:45 IIRC for things like some part of a building being in a different state, I believe the state it's in is considered to be where the mailbox is (could be wrong, but I think that's how it works in the US)

[@ibx2cat]

Are you allowed to choose where the mailbox goes

[@kill_tatsu]

it's pretty rare and I've never heard of it myself so take what I say with grain of salt but my guess is that both states would want taxes from you so you would end up paying taxes to both and having a split lot. and it also really can change a lot depending on which two states it's sitting in. as for the mail box thing if you have a split lot then there would be two addresses so i guess pick which state you wanna claim to live in and pay your income taxes to (if applicable)?

[@AlexGMD]

"Why does the US have such weird borders." *Wyoming:*

[@asheep7797]

Yeah, why IS it ‘perfectly’ rectangular?

[@steverempel8584]

The Original Canada was Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Southern Ontario, Southern Quebec. Everything else was added later. Nova Scotia would have been about 10% of Canada's land area back then.

[@Mr.Nichan]

"Nova Scotia is not what you picture when you picture Canada. If you do picture it when you picture Camada, you're doing it wrong, probably." No... That's doing it right, actually, just maybe more right than is normal.

[@ninjawarrior8994]

6:00 Don't worry guys! No pigs were hurt I promise!

[@Mr.Nichan]

It's odd to call WW2 the "arguable" bad thing. WW1 is much, much, more arguable. It's one of those funny things in history class, where, from our modern perspective (or at least a modern American perspective), it looks really absurd to blame WW1 entirely on Germany* and it seems very obviously to be the victorious countries just "blaming" the looser because they won and so got to decide, and obviously they didn't want to pay for it, they were happy to get rid of a geopolitical rival, and basically they were just getting their "spoils of war" from Germany.** *Actually, the only reason the Austrohungarian and Ottoman empires didn't have to pay for the war was because they were completely dissolved. I think people sometimes forget that and it makes blaming Germany look a little less absurd when you realize they're actually just blamed ALL the central powers. **And the Ottomon Empire, which allied powers basically took over parts of.

[@TheRealZeaga]

It's arguably the second bad thing they did because it's arguable whether WW1 was the first. He's not saying WW2 was arguably bad.

[@Android25K]

I didn't know this channel existed, this is great

[@Krakoww]

AlternateTitle: Brittish Minecrafter rants about the U.S. shapes being wierd

[@EmeraldComposer]

As someone who lives in northern Maine where our main export is potatoes, the new Ireland thing actually makes sense lol

[@AFAndersen]

11:50 missed chance to point out the afganistan panhandle, where england and russia gave away their borders to afganistan, so they wouldn't border eachother anymore

[@aideenraviz]

babe wake up new 2cat video

[@Aaden.mp4]

2:00 me who lives in Nova Scotia: 😭

[@governmented8401]

me too😭😭

[@drinkmoreagua8984]

Me 2

[@jamesvader8683]

I just got finished watching your livestream. And at the end you said that you made a video on your second channel. Omg I’ve never actually looked at what this channel is all about, THIS IS AWESOME! great video! (Subscribed)

[@mrlonghead]

Imagine a timeline toy cat becomes pm of UK

[@connortopping6943]

toycat is tory confirmed

[@unacceptablefringemajority251]

The part of Minnesota north of Lake of the woods (Angle Inlet) and the part of washington State south of Vancouver (point Roberts), the border between Ohio and Michigan that is not straight east/west (they had a battle over the border shape there), the southwest corner of Kentucky that you have to drive through Tennessee to get to, the part of Virginia across the Chesapeake Bay, the 4 corners monument where 4 states touch, the southern border of California is not straight east/west, the border between Saskatchewan and Manitoba is not straight north/south (it hogs east/west 20 times), the French oversees territory called St Pierre and Miquelon just off the coast of Newfoundland in Canada, the city of Detroit, Michigan is just north of Windsor, Ontario, only 1 highway connecting Manitoba (and western Canada) with Ontario (and eastern Canada).

[@unacceptablefringemajority251]

Also should mention Delaware’s 12 mile circular border Centered in Newcastle. And that there are 22 islands in Canada bigger than prince Edward Island

[@hugoyu2001]

By the way, Kentucky is split in 2 and so is Michigan (but the second one is probably much more well-known). I am not American, and I still know that

[@samgaither793]

Kentucky is 1 piece not split.

[@geografisica]

Click bait! When you think the video is about Brazil but actually is about North America 😒

[@principalmcvicker6530]

Can you make a video on Egypt's new planned capital city?

[@kazakhdude]

Fun fact: the northernmost point of Brazil is closer to Uruguay than southernmost point of Brazil

[@RobertoAlencar]

@Snoopzinho cara ele falou q o ponto mais ao Norte do BR esta mais perto do Uruguai que do ponto mais ao sul do Brasil, nao tem nada a ver com o que vc falou

[@LuisGarcia-tb9po]

Federal land belongs to congress/what ever department they choose to manage it. Tax, laws, law enforcement is also federal and hast very little to do with the state itself. If you commit a crime you are tried in the state you committed the crime, by a jury of the people who live in the county/state. The states don’t ever see the money that the federal government might collect from the land, unless the federal government then develops that land further

[@kazriko]

I was waiting for you to mention Northwest Angle... The little exclave caused by a surveying error.

[@Mr.Nichan]

12:38 Sales tax for a parking lot? Are you talking about when you pay for parking?, because I think parking is usually free at national parks. (Actually, it's usually free anywhere except in busy parts of big cities, just speaking from my experience as a Texan whose been to New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Virginia, DC, maybe North Dakota, maybe Maryland, and nowhere else, though I was less than 5 years old in Nevada and Utah and at most 5 in California and Arizona, and I've never been involved in parking in Louisiana, and my memory of some other states is also very limited.)

[@shortclips4023]

Some parts of my house are closer to my neighbours house than my own, I never realised this before until now.

[@unacceptablefringemajority251]

Just did a quick measure on my own and find that one corner of my house in 40 meters from my neighbors house and 30 meters from the other corner of my house. Mind blown 🤯

[@kairon156]

About Newfoundland I'm told we had 3 options after WW2. to join Canada, remain/become our own nation or to join the US. Newfoundland has never had good management and it was during the great depression so we joined Canada for reasons. And I hear the US were a bit too busy at the time to bargain for Newfoundland.

[@Minecraftforadacaixa]

so proud of my country! soo big!

[@DnBclassictunes]

Your hair looks very fresh today :)

[@Kerivity]

If you picture Nova Scotia (one of the founding provinces of Canada, the Nova Scotia accent is the most globally recognized as the "Canadian accent", Canada's most notable television shows and movies originating from Nova Scotia for example trailer park boys, as well as one of the first parts of Canada to be originally colonised by the British) when you picture Canada, apparently that's wrong. Just as wrong as picturing England when you picture Britain. Bit of a daft remark toycat but I suppose we can overlook it.

[@jann3663]

I've been subscribed for a while now and don't recall a video on the Alaska purchase. Could be wrong though.

[@mx_ae]

As a brazilian: this is a certified bruh moment

[@thomasnc]

Most people in Canada actually live south of the Northernmost point of mainland America. A large amount of Canadians live in and around Toronto as well as in Quebec along the St Lawrence River. I recently moved to Nova Scotia from Toronto and we are entirely south of the American border as well.

[@JoelLessing]

The assertion that the US could "just take Canada" is highly questionable, to say the least. The US couldn't take Cuba.

[@themoviedealers]

Problem was we tried to do it in secret.

[@thelatinoguy]

If the US did not care about public opinion and didnt mind being loud, honestly the only countries that could last anything more than a year would be Russia and China, purely because of sheer size and population respectively

[@Lucmercurius]

@@thelatinoguy Yeah, sure. You have no clue about war and geopolitics. US could use all his power(without nuclear weapons) and it could never conquer Russia,China,India and European Union. US spent trillions of dollars in war after WW2 and never won anything. US used Napalm in Vietnam and lost the fucking "war". Sure USA is the most powerful country military wise, but going to war against tough opponents is a different game.

[@froglifes6829]

@@thelatinoguy You dont know what youre talking about lol

[@thelatinoguy]

@@Lucmercurius i literally served in the world's strongest Navy, I saw the greatest warships to have ever graced the earth's oceans launch on months long deployments. Ive seen the precision of Marines go out on rescue operations with 0 casualties. I have friends in every branch of the military except the Space Force, and they show off them during live fire exercises absolutely killing it when it comes to coordination and on the fly battlefield tactics.

[@brdevll]

so..... the video with Brasil on the title starts about Brasil and stays like that for 20 seconds before coming back to the USA, Canada and whatever, interesting

[@marc-andreservant201]

If you live in Detroit, you can easily visit Canada by driving south. Or at least, you could before Covid.

[@BeetleBuns]

NC is pointy because we wanted to have a piece of them smoky mountains

[@d_eexe]

you would honestly be such a fun geography teacher

[@jack-is-back]

I love that his voice slowly slows down throughout the video.

[@deephorizon1365]

My family has a cabin in Point Roberts, it's great because you can pop across the border and pick up a package if they don't deliver to Canada, however these poor guys that live permanently there are getting screwed over with COVID regulations

[@mickson2012]

Brazil is also closer to Africa than brazil

[@t71024]

You probably already knew this about Texas USA but El Paso is closer to the Pacific Ocean than to Corpus Cristi on the Atlantic coast.

[@giannism6875]

Some Greek Geography Facts 🇬🇷 Greece is closer to Saudi Arabia than Germany And Closer to Chad than Sweden Cyprus is closer to India than Ireland Also Athens is 1 mile closer to Cairo than Budapest Are we really European?😂

[@Edoorardo]

Yeah. Brazil's closer to africa than the continental US, but it doesn't mean we're african

[@giannism6875]

@@Edoorardo called a joke

[@luisjogos821]

Video title: has Brazil. Brazilians: sup

[@jarnar08]

maybe take a look at the "1920 Schleswig plebiscites" on wikipedia... Germany "loosing" a part to Denmark wasn't entirely because of WW1 but goes back to the wars before in the 19th century and were decided back then as well (kind of) but those rulings ignored until after WW1.

[@thrashes6208]

Part of your greenscreen wasnt greenscreened the entire video. Really annoying line. This is exactly the quality ive grown to expect and love from you

[@kateFGMP]

Ok, but most of North Americans traveling to Brazil, are going to Rio, that is located on the Southeast, so pretty far. And that’s the reason when you ask to a Brazilian if they have been to Amazon Forest the answer is no.

[@sammymarrco2]

You should know that unless you're an urban area in the United States you do not have to pay for parking

[@FatBoy42069]

and national parks are owned by the fed if you're in two states you pay to the state you ether enter the property from or to the state that holds more of the property.

[@jion7242]

Don't worry. Brazil is getting closer.

[@willian2848]

XD

[@sneedmando186]

Look up split cities, like Tenga East coast states were original expansion divided by terrain and people, west coast states were more rapid conquests, during more land was obtained Also if you don’t have a gun in Alaska grizzlies get you

[@toddwebb7521]

As the crow flies (it would be further to drive it because of lake Erie) some of Eastern TN is closer to Canada than to Memphis

[@Leg3nd-27]

I think I heard from somewhere that Russia mostly just wanted to get rid of Alaska, and they considered selling it to one of those tiny European countries. That would have been funny.

[@diegoanimations9504]

Hello and welcome to another episode of half as interesting where we discuss random facts such as why Alaska belongs to Cyprus

[@skypig]

That sneaky china reference at the end was just on point

[@skrubbed]

if nova scotia was not a part of canada, it would be upsetting because i live in canada and nova scotia is such a nice place to visit

[@ayr1190]

The title is more confusing than my finals

[@KaelFazkid]

Title: "Brazil is closer to Canada than to Brazil" Me: Ah yes, the snow here is made of snowier snow

[@joshuabessire9169]

We Americans need an independent Canada as a buffer state in case Denmark and Santa Clause joins forces and attack from the north. We keep Alaska to simutaniously give the finger to Russia and Canada.

[@Radbot776]

Lol russia has more than enough Siberia, it’s a good thing russia doesn’t own Alaska and it’s perfect that it belongs to America, anyone else it would be annoying

[@charlesmoss2313]

Very enjoyable trip, Dude. Earned a new subscriber 👍🏻🇺🇸 🌎

[@jann3663]

Loved the accent slip. Yeah, wrong channel.

[@mokushmasmo6009]

I hate it when nations claim "We should own that piece of land cuz religion cuz climate." Like g maybe those people still want to be independent regardless of how many similarities you have.

[@juamont]

I'll ask again here, between the Baltic sea and the White sea, there are a series of canals, rivers, and lakes that, aside from two (maybe three, its blurry in google maps) dams, its a continuous route. Since this makes the northern peninsula disconnect from asia/europe, would this make it an island? or do rivers not count for that?

[@sharpieJuice73]

Him: It's the United States of America, no it's "of an something" Me, an American: It's "of America," don't second guess yourself

[@liamking5142]

Nova Scotia is where Trailer Park Boys and Cape Breton music, Canada's two great contributions to world culture, are from, so yes it is absolutely what I picture when I think of Canada.

[@MariaJulia-od8jv]

1:12 says a brittish guy, I mean, come on India? Australia? The Malvinas? St. Helena? The British Virgin Islands? Canada? The US? Canada? Because people invade other territories and keep them THAT'S WHY.

[@GonzaloP007]

Don't forget Gibraltar

[@TheMagicJIZZ]

I didn't know Britain owned us or India lmao

[@shizukuhajime2392]

@@TheMagicJIZZ Britain owned 25% of the world at one point then said fuck it I can’t be bothered and just started making excuses and purposely losing wars not trying hard so they could get rid of those countries because it was too much work which us British hate working more than we have too I’m pretty sure that the entire reason we even started to take over the world was because we wanted to force everyone to speak English and make it the common language in the world which when speaking with foreign countries of different languages English is used just because we were too lazy and quite frankly couldn’t be bothered and didn’t want to have to learn another language so we forced our own language on everyone else instead

[@TheMagicJIZZ]

@@shizukuhajime2392 we didn't force our language or religion that's why the empire was so successful... Britain never lost any wars. it went bankrupt lol there was a war called world war 2

[@tundrataiga5100]

we can apply this to mamy countries (strecthed countries with many neighbors), if the rule is from one end to the other end of country.

[@holdthedoor8130]

Nova Scotia, Canada : you're doing boarders wrong

[@ShonnMorris]

As far as the park that's federal, any state fees wouldn't matter because, while it is in two states, neither state has jurisdiction over federal property. The opposite is also true but in this case, only the federal government matters.

[@roxxma]

Another interesting thing: Maine and Ireland are roughly the same size in height and width. Though Maine has a population of about 1.4 million v. Ireland's 6.9 million islandwide.

[@sunj8346]

I hope the thing happened in Kaliningrad does not happen in Hong Kong soon, where people are emigrating out and people from the north are emigrating in.

[@georgiancrossroads]

If you ever want more info about Alaska I used to live there for 22 years. (Now I live in Georgia, NOT the US state.)

[@rabiosas6473]

Cool. Why did you leave Alaska after so long?