Brit Reacting to Geography Oddities & Facts About The USA

[@nickmccoy85]

I actually respect this guy for his google search tangents mid-video. Wish more reactors would learn like that instead of doubling down on their dumb.

[@arosieworld]

That's my favorite thing about him. His curiosity. ❤️

[@greendragonpublishing]

Same! The constant search for new data is lovely to see.

[@shawnanderson6313]

I am glad, he is doing that, but his search criteria is horrible. He was asking what the capital of India is, just put it in to google search or ask for the largest cities in India.

[@labhrais6957]

"It must be crazy living somewhere so remote." You'd be surprised how many Walmarts and Dollar Generals find their way to the middle of nowhere. Lol

[@route2070]

Yes, but even so they can still be far apart. I worked at a Walmart where the next closest Walmart is 100 miles away.

[@jeffrichards1537]

Wal mart super centers within 15 miles of my house.

[@jeffrichards1537]

I live in north central West Virginia. There are like 10 dollar venerals and 4 wal mart super center within 20 miles of my house

[@michaelschemlab]

4:14 Thurston: “Colorado is high as hell!” Me: “Especially with da ganja”

[@swan4163]

And this video was posted on 4/20.

[@timreno72]

When I was younger and studying 'Landscape Architecture' in college they told us about an interesting fact about the campus at UNR. When the college was first built the designers deliberately didn't pour any sidewalks on campus between the buildings. They then waited until winter and mapped out all the paths in the snow the students created when they went between classes. They then poured walkways on those paths knowing it would be the most efficient way for the students to travel. They are still there today 100+ years later.

[@SkiesTurnedGrey]

11:10 People in areas like this often have their own gardens and chickens and such, for eggs and produce, herbs, etc. They'll can vegetables, and have little, local grocers that sell the rest of what you need. Then there are some of those rural areas that have _just_ enough people that Wal-mart plops down a giant store in the middle of the tiny town, it looks super out of place for ten years until the area starts to grow. If a Wal-mart gets built near you, you know growth is coming for the area (generally speaking).

[@SherriLyle80s]

I and my late grandfather almost got stuck in a whirlpool traveling from the Bayou in Manchac from Lake Maurepas to Lake Ponchutrain. Took us a minute to get out. The whirlpool current starts out much further than you can see it and before you know it, your boat is going off course. We were pretty far out from the center but if people dont pay attention they can have a real problem.

[@caseyflorida]

When I was a kid my family went to Nova Scotia on vacation and we saw the tides at the Bay of Fundy. I remember at low tide seeing the docks 50 feet up in the air. It was mind boggling!

[@SkiesTurnedGrey]

I've been to Mammoth Cave in Kentucky! It was a very cool experience. It was like a week-long camping trip with family, staying at different areas/parks each night, and we visited various points of interest like that. I was only about 14 or so, at the time. It was such a neat experience.

[@kenbrown2808]

this will really frost your mind: in Montana, anything less than a hundred miles is considered close by. freeway (motorway) speed limits are typically 80 MPH, and rural road speed limits are 70 in the daytime.

[@pacmanc8103]

Which is 130kph.

[@kenbrown2808]

@@pacmanc8103 and to really frighten uk residents, trucks can go 70, and if it has fewer than 3 axles, it's not considered a truck.

[@pacmanc8103]

@@kenbrown2808 😂

[@claregale9011]

@@kenbrown2808 you should see the narrow roads we have to drive down especially the country lanes .

[@kenbrown2808]

@@claregale9011 I've been on your country lanes. Im montana, any of your nationsl speed limit roads would be 70 mph limit.

[@chrisserfass8635]

You should do a reaction video of the Deepest Lakes in the World. It might blow your mind Lav Luka.

[@dixonoliver2360]

Something interesting about the sky scrappers in North Korea is that a lot of them are empty and there are homeless areas on the streets right below them.

[@pacmanc8103]

Great reaction, Thurston. I really like your interest in geographical facts!

[@hobbs12cats]

Only about 1/3 of Oregon as people living in it...

[@cynthiapeller2195]

I’ve been to the bay of Fundy back in 2019, truly fascinating to watch the water move like a tidal wave. The rock caves along the coast are beautiful at low tide, the floor of the bay is solid rock.

[@vampiresquid74]

It always blows my mind how big the US is compared to other countries.. I drive across New Jersey like its nothing, that's the whole country for some

[@bob_._.]

When the incoming tide gets to the far end of the Bay of Fundy it forms a "tidal bore" basically a tsunami that can be from 8ft (2.5m) to 20 ft (6m) tall, depending on the tides that day.

[@danbaker300]

The bit about Montana and South Dakota doesn't entirely appear to be accurate; Google Maps shows five roads that cross the border (which is still a tiny number, considering how long that border is, and they do all appear to be dirt roads). However, it does appear to be the only pair of states sharing a land border which neither the Interstate Highway System nor the older US Routes cross. I believe there are ten others with no Interstate crossings: Nevada-Oregon, Nevada-Idaho, Nebraska-South Dakota, Nebraska-Kansas, Nebraska-Missouri, Oklahoma-Colorado, Oklahoma-New Mexico, Iowa-Wisconsin, Missouri-Kentucky, and New York-Vermont. But all ten of those are crossed by US Routes; Montana-South Dakota is not.

[@aweiserbud]

Also watch and react to videos about Derinkuyu underground city

[@mycocorleone4771]

I went to mammoth caves for my 8th grade feild trip in 2008

[@aweiserbud]

True story: my favorite thing to do is just take off driving and explore. When we were teens a friend and I ended up in a super tiny town that had false front buildings and a single cell jail. We grabbed some sandwiches and sat on a small stone arched bridge. Later that night we watched the news and found out that some crazy fvcker was arrested for planting dynamite under the very bridge we ate lunch on. A few years later that same friend, his wife and myself were driving through a town on Christmas Eve (everything closes on holidays here). As we approached some railroad tracks I said...wouldn't it be fvcked up if we rolled over these tracks and got a flat tire? 😀 As we rolled over the tracks we got a flat tire...my friend and his wife simultaneously looked back at me with their jaws dropped. You watch some crazy stuff so I figured you'd enjoy crazy stories. I've got several more that are very similar...I don't know what I have, some say intuition and some say psychic but I can't control it ..it comes then goes, good or bad.

[@aweiserbud]

Look up Marengo Caves and Blue Springs Caverns in Indiana

[@jacksonbrown2692]

Love your videos man keep it up!

[@christianoliver3572]

Y'all know what Tulsa spelled backwards is???? Thanks for that one Larry The Cable Guy!!

[@SkiesTurnedGrey]

8:28 When traffic is that bad, it really makes you wonder what the point is of even trying to drive anywhere. At that point, it's honestly just about being too lazy to walk or ride a bike, because you're certainly not getting anywhere faster by taking a car. And all those cars are just sitting in that traffic, idling away all kinds of pollution. Just walk, you'll get there faster! People make no sense.

[@daricetaylor737]

Whirlpools do NOT pull boats in! They will generally just spin by the tail in the middle. Most boats are able to motor themselves out of the spin. The depiction of boats being drowned in them is just movie dramatics, even most people are able to swim successfully out of them. There is no suction in the middle of the pool, so you don't need to fear them.

[@chazkahenry6047]

Actually in his first fact when he talks about Oral Roberts University and the faith based hospital that is now an office building in Tulsa, OK, he kind of got it wrong. I'm only saying something because it is hands down the best hospital I have ever been to. It is actually owned now by a bunch of physicians who run the hospital how they think a hospital should be run, they rent out floors to other physicians and there are floors rented to businesses too. Anywho, I had knee replacement surgery done on January 20th and March 17th of this year, and it was amazing there, the level of care, the staff, everything was hands over fists better then any hospital I have dealt with in the past. It's now called the Surgical Hospital of Oklahoma, it does, as many of the sky scrapers in Tulsa so, stick out in the skyline though.

[@you_can_call_me_T]

Were any of you taught about MIMAL in school? The elf in the U.S. map? Whenever I bring this up, people look at me like I'm nuts lol

[@3251JOE]

A lot of water goes in and out of the Bay of Fundy, but it does not drain or fill all at once. The aquatic life has plenty of time to stay wet and not become stranded.

[@whowastheoneguy4719]

Geography King is great! Love his channel so it's always nice to see a reaction from you

[@DarthDragon007]

Is it weird that everytime I see Kyle I just can't stop looking at his insanely perfect looking teeth? Like how do you get teeth that friggen White?!

[@HahnJames]

I've been to Mammoth Caves. I was glad that I didn't have to live under ground. It's interesting to note that even though more than 365 miles of cave have been explored, there is still much more left to explore. There were passages that I had to squeeze through and was thankful that I wasn't any fatter than I was at that time. Every now and then, I would think about how I would be squashed to a couple of molecules in thickness if there was some sort of earthquake that brought the quintillions of tons of rock above me down on my shoulders. Altogether, it was fun, interesting, new and exciting, a fine trip indeed.

[@meotho6672]

Keep up the great work! :)

[@corvus1374]

Mount Whitney is the tallest peak in the US that is not in Alaska. It's in Inyo County, California. The lowest peak in the US, Death Valley, is also in Inyo County.

[@kenbrown2808]

and the tallest point in Florida is a manmade structure.

[@deannafisher2658]

Been to Mammoth Cave National Park. I let the rest of my family go in while I waited outside 😂

[@LeveyHere]

Heck yeah, glad you saw this one too.

[@HBC423]

The northeast megalopolis, from Washington DC to Boston has over 50 million people in a very small area

[@HBC423]

Colorado is really high lol. In both ways... I do love skiing out there, these Tennessee mountains are too old and eroded away

[@kenaikuskokwim9694]

At the other extreme, the three tallest buildings in Minneapolis differ by only a foot in height. Thus, on a list of the top 100 or so in the US, these three rank together. Two face each other across the street; the third is a few blocks away. Not quite Triplet Towers.

[@ruth2141]

Some caves form in limestone rock. When water flows through, acid in the water dissolves the limestone leaving a cavity. If the climate changes and there is less water, the cavity is hollow. IA "live" cave still has some water dripping into it from the surface, and minerals from the limestone dissolve into the water. When the water dries, it leaves a thin layer of the minerals. If this goes on for a long time, cave formations like stalactites form. Most tourist caves are "dead" and water has ceased to flow through them. Allowing people into a "live" cave is problematic because they leave behind skin cells, bacteria, and other biological and chemical contaminants. I toured a live cave in Arizona -- Kartchner. They only allow a certain number of people, everyone entering goes through a spray to remove contaminants, and entrance is through an airlock to preserve the air quality and humidity in the cave. Everyone stays on a walkway so any contaminants fall onto the walkway, which is flushed with water every day.

[@jackhogston6119]

That skyscraper in Pyongyang looks as if it might be a glass and steel structure, but it's actually all concrete. It's been clad in glass to make it look nice, but those aren't windows, there's just concrete under most of that glass. The interior remains unfinished, so it can't be used.

[@stevekenilworth]

Snowdon in wales, the highest mountain in Wales and England is a height of 1,035m. Colorado lowest point 1,011m .

[@yugioht42]

Whirlpools are only a danger to swimmers not boats. Most whirlpools are too weak to even try moving a boat despite what it looks like. The great naruto bridge in Japan is a good example as it’s full of whirlpool at the bottom of the bridge but boats can easily cut right through them like butter. And even dinky fishing boats do that trek every day with no issues. All a whirlpool is, is a combination of two currents that spin around or it’s a obstruction down in the sea floor that currents try to go around creating the whirlpool. Not too dangerous unless you try to swim it. No one really swims in Japan unless it’s for school and that’s very controlled.

[@stxrenegade]

I live in that first city shown at the start of the start.

[@TheTrueCream]

yeah its abandoned lol...it's north korea

[@disoriented1]

Oklahoma City with the Devon Energy Center reminds me of the IDS Center in Minneapolis in the early 70s on 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show'..it just looks a bit out of place.

[@joelarson4334]

Could you react to The Rules for Rulers by CGP Gray. Its vary interesting.

[@tracyfrazier7440]

Please keep reacting to Geography King!

[@greendragonpublishing]

I love, love, such videos

[@tyunpeters3170]

Colorado is bigger than the UK which I didn’t expect to be the case

[@kenaikuskokwim9694]

The highest point in Kansas is not far from the lowest in Colorado, and is slightly higher. To Americans, Kansas is synonymous with flatness, but Florida and Illinois are much flatter.

[@Zrs3820]

Speaking of geography, you should definitely react to RealLifeLore's video on "Why Pakistan's Geography Sucks". It's very interesting and a fact not many people know. It's bascially like Poland's geography but 10x worse.

[@halicarnassus834]

Am I the only one who senses Thurn may go full dark web within 3-5 years? Oh his days, I hope to God my inkling is wrong.

[@matts.6904]

You should react to Truseneye92's new video: "When Americans Imitate a British Accent." (This is the guy you reacted to before who did all the British dialects and other accents).

[@pacmanc8103]

I’m not sure why he considers Kuwait a city-state - it isn’t. Bahrain is much closer to being a city-state than Kuwait. Same with Qatar. Both are basically 1 city but with much less area than Kuwait. Kuwait doesn’t have towns because there is very little water (I believe the city’s water, like Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, comes from desalination plants), but there are many bedouins crossing over from Saudi Arabia and Iraq.

[@lesterstone8595]

Interesting 🤔

[@SarahMD63]

WTH has Mexico and India have to do with oddities in the USA??

[@falonrobinson3465]

Boomer! Go eagles!