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[@GeographyGeek]

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[@YeetusTheFetus]

how is this different from nfts?

[@TheMyRogil]

Scam, don't do it, plenty of information about it online

[@raajjji5486]

SURE

[@JohnnyDigital27]

Such a smooth transition into the ad. Well done, caught me completely off guard.

[@tav095]

The people that came up with "Mall Dova" and "Park City City Park" are definitely dads.

[@LinneaSanchez]

Lol!!

[@juliusnepos6013]

Lol

[@HarmonyHavenMoments]

Lol😂😂

[@itschiyu5713]

Lmao

[@hazel66]

I am not bored, but am always excited to learn new geographical facts!

[@fatherstevek]

Amen to that!

[@MiddieTV]

Omg me too!!!!!

[@St.Linguini_of_Pesto]

The weirder the better, imho.

[@minhhqng]

well i am

[@dillonwheeler7484]

I wonder how Eswatini enforces that law. Is there like an air traffic control for witches?

[@zackakai5173]

I think I read somewhere they have police witches on their own broomsticks.

[@regorflora7915]

They got f22's

[@YouTubeSaysThereCantBeTwoRyans]

​@@regorflora7915 don't give them a new Top-Gun movie idea

[@mortysmith-do9qz]

Witch?

[@andynarain672]

They hire wizards and witches from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft.

[@timiddorangaming]

You know I literally opened KZbin this morning thinking "I'm bored, I'll find a 10-20 minute video to pass the time as I have cereal". Perfect.

[@gamewithgreg]

The one about McDonalds in Egypt...a lot of people think that the pyramids are out in the desert somewhere. The truth is that they are practically surrounded by a town / city.

[@charlynegezze8536]

When I learned that I was really disgusted. The pyramids are sacrosanct. A McDonald´s in front is blasphemous.😱

[@saptaccrvima3563]

Not a single person thinks that

[@Globert]

​@@saptaccrvima3563 I did

[@shrekjunior6144]

@@charlynegezze8536 To truly appreciate McDonalds requires a acquired taste.

[@charlynegezze8536]

Shrek, I appreciate McD's but not on hallowed ground. 😁

[@wardarcade7452]

Very interesting facts! Here's another- the freshwater lake called the Sea of Galilee is 600 feet below sea level (the 2nd lowest lake in the world) and its outflow is the River Jordan which empties into the salty Dead Sea at 1400 feet below sea level (the lowest lake and lowest point of surface land on Earth). Yes, the River Jordan is virtually the ONLY major river with its entire main course hundreds of feet below sea level!

[@TheJoker137]

I wonder why that is? Is it just where the earth happened to be or is the ground particularly soft and prone to washing away? Will it be another Grand Canyon in a million years I wonder?

[@wardarcade7452]

@@TheJoker137 Good question! The ground isn't particularly soft but this seems to be the result of extreme below sea level depression is a result of it being the far end of the 7000 mile long Great Rift Valley which starts in East Africa with that tectonic plate splitting from the main continent with shallower depressions in Ethiopia, Djibouti and Eritrea before it goes entirely underwater with the Red Sea before it makes it reaches Western Asia with the Sea of Galilee, River Jordan and Dead Sea! There's far less water flowing down the River Jordan than there was when the Colorado River carved out the Grand Canyon. Speaking of the Grand Canyon, though, there's far less debris at its mouth in Gulf of California than geologists would have expected . IOW, there's millions of cubic feet of missing rocks,etc. that no one can account for! Sadly, the Colorado has been long since dammed and tapped out so that today, not only have the reservoirs become alarmingly empty (and it's unclear whether this past winter's intense snowfall will reverse that) but nowadays the Gulf of California is lucky to get a trickle of sludge oozing into it.

[@TheJoker137]

@@wardarcade7452 Excellent response with bonus facts! Amazing. Thank you!

[@jonahs92]

For such a tiny country, Israel is so geologically unique. It's astonishing.

[@TheJoker137]

@@jonahs92 You know, I've only ever studied it in the historical/political sense. Do you have any recs for good videos about its geography?

[@nozrep]

these types of random knowledge videos just always always really hit the spot for me!

[@nlm2nd]

This is pretty great. Appreciate the visuals you chose. Not surprised about the mountains being related. Would explain part of the whole "tropical plants in cold regions" thing.

[@nolesy34]

Yes, and they revolutionise their DNA to form sub sub tropical life

[@George83_Thomas]

Nice to see Greece and Turkey are willing to collaborate; that’s a start and hopefully one day they’ll be able to fully reconcile

[@Booksandstrawberries]

I really hope so, as a Greek the Turks are really like brothers to us!

[@covid__2017]

@@Booksandstrawberriessame for me as a Turk!

[@mynameisnotimportant2898]

Yes brother turkish people loves greek people and find them fun ❤​@@Booksandstrawberries

[@user-lc5uh4ic1z]

the only time i feel like youtube recommended actually knows ms

[@GeographyGeek]

That’s awesome lol

[@KVirello]

When talking about the central pangaen mountains you forgot to mention that the Scottish Highlands are also a remnant of this ancient mountain range.

[@streamofconsciousness5826]

I think that Gravitational anomaly is worth a deeper dive. Good stuff, I'll keep my Plane above 150M when flying around Iswaini.

[@GeographyGeek]

I’m not sure if the pun was intended but nice lol. It is a topic I’m considering making a larger video on.

[@r.8902]

out of all the facts, idk why the Pangea mountain range was the thing that got me the most excited and now I just want to learn more Pangea facts

[@absolxtion]

I just started watching your videos, I absolutely love them, geography and history are both things I really enjoy learning about so thank you for making these videos! May I suggest making a video of North Macedonia? It seems like such a beautiful country that I hope to visit soon enough :)

[@Tinil0]

As some additional information from the ones I know something about For e'Swatini, this is an aviation law that a government minister used a tongue-in-cheek EXAMPLE of a witch flying above 150m. It was targeting drones, not witches. But you know how media stories get passed around, especially about "third-world countries". The United States of Central America is interesting (Well, the United Provinces/Federal Republic which lasted almost 20 years, not JUST the United States) but what's more interesting is that there are two nations that currently use "United States" as part of their official name, and quite a few that used it as part of their name for a short time in the past, such as Belgium, Brazil, Colombia, Indonesia, Venezuela, and even a union of the UAR (ALREADY a union of Egypt and Syria) and North Yemen that existed for 3 years named itself the United Arab States. For their "Earthquake Diplomacy", you will be happy to know that despite Erdogan straining relations, the recent earthquake in February still had Greece responding first and quickest to help Turkey. For Hawaii getting blizzard, one thing that is amazing is the state has a full 12(!) different Koppen climate types, from rainforest to desert to mediterranean to oceanic to subpolar to tundra! Both Alaska and California, big states with incredibly varied climates, only have 11. Texas may be big but it only has 8, and they are all B and C type. Lake Nyos definitely isn't the deadliest lake, even though the Lake Nyos Eruption is definitely the most famous event involving these lakes prone to limnic eruptions. Lake Kivu in the Great Lakes region, near the border with Rwanda is a lake that is MASSIVELY larger in both surface area and depth and is prone to them historically, though hasn't had a famous eruption in modern times. However, it's almost definitely the one that has killed more living things over time, as there is ample of evidence of past limnic eruptions even if we don't have any eyewitness accounts.

[@endormaster2315]

Thank you for all your knowledge.

[@krle7970]

Also united Mexican states

[@yajisc]

I live in Utah and often pass by the Park City City Park and always make me smile

[@tanvikhare9710]

Geography because I was bored is exactly what I needed Thank you

[@michaelhowell2326]

High five for nailing the pronunciation of the Appalachians. The Highlands of Scotland were also part of the Appalachians too.

[@GeographyGeek]

It’s because I live there lol

[@thevikingseer]

Do people get Appalachia wrong?

[@Justbeeadi]

@@GeographyGeeknative Arkansan here! We actually pronounce Ouachita like “Wash-ih-tah/taw” great video!

[@maddieb.4282]

@@thevikingseerAFAIK it’s authentically pronounced more like “latch” and not “eight”

[@peytonstringer2515]

He butchered the Ouachita Mountains though

[@bhavishsivram8922]

Currently in Eswatini and I can confirm, I haven’t seen a witch flying ever since being here. Looks like they may be flying under the radar or the law is being enforced correctly

[@bbb_j003l6]

i’m genuinely confused are witches real or was that first one satire or something

[@cahilla54]

I love how Muammar Gaddaffi thought he had the right to disband the state of Switzerland 😂

[@figlexgonzalez3115]

You should one day talk about the Crystals Cave in Naica, Mexico 😺. Pretty cool formations discovered by accident!

[@ScottSchindewolf]

i would love to see videos on all of these facts tbh

[@GeographyGeek]

A few of them probably will end up getting their own.

[@dutchman7623]

And thank you for these strange, quirky, interesting and amazing facts! Nice collection of things that make countries special in one way or another. Some of them I knew, but most are new and I will surely search for more info about them. Thanks!

[@dutchman7623]

@PlusStats No, but their broomsticks are! 🧹

[@blackpink6478]

Tomorrow is my result for 12th exam and it's 1:30am right now can't breathe properly cause of stress nor fall asleep feeling suffocated but this video oddly kind of calms me down...thank you for making this video

[@GeographyGeek]

That's great to hear! I hope you did well

[@blackpink6478]

@@GeographyGeek thank you! I passed my exam and also subscribed your channel!

[@GeographyGeek]

@@blackpink6478 nice, congrats! And thank you!

[@rostermaan1321]

wow first video i see from you and im absolutly amazed. safe sub and thanks for the content Lake Nyos was a crazy event...i wonder how long it took to find out the reason

[@MariAdkins]

thank you for pronouncing Appalachia properly. however while I knew the mountain range included Morocco - it also includes Canada, Nova Scotia and around to Scotland and Norway (and further if you check a globe or map of Pangaea; it's possible they (used to) stretch further south than Alabama, into the gulf; still researching that - I hadn't heard that about the other two ranges in the US. according to everything I've ever researched they've never been considered part of the Appalachian chain in any way. I'd like to see a source for your information. mostly to see if I need to update my notes!

[@jimc.goodfellas226]

You learn something new every day!

[@BobvanWerkhoven]

You could extend the facts on the river Donau, passing through 10 countries, with: The source lies in the Black Forest and it ends in the Black Sea. 😉

[@user-ox6up4di1y]

great video, I will leave here feeling very satisfied and stocked up with knowledge on these amazing and wonderful facts and statistics

[@ocelotl369]

That cartographer name is basically "John from the House": -What is your name -John from the House -Where are you from John? -I am from the house XD

[@quaternary611]

In a future video a possible mention could be the Iapetus Ocean underneath West Virginia…where they still source their salt from this prehistoric body of water.

[@Dragonite_Tom]

Good to enhance my knowledge these days. Thank you man.😊

[@GeographyGeek]

No problem! Thanks for watching!

[@dantikks]

the puerto rico trench fact about gravity causing navigational errors had me googling a map of the bermuda triangle... and it overlaps. coincidence? maybe, but very interesting

[@shaphyshaphy]

Thank you. Need more of these.

[@Elemblue2]

I genuinely loved your lack of click bait title so much that I came here.

[@BlaineKK37]

Cleanest add transition I've seen yet

[@Isaaac165]

7:14 “There are no mistakes” -Master Oogway

[@GeographyGeek]

😂 I’ve seen this guy

[@JoaoSilva-on4od]

The chicken to duck shift is a fantastic fact!

[@ilyanocreemers6605]

Hey you forgot that the scotish Highlands were also a part of the appalachians and the atlas mountains if I remember correctly

[@jonathanyanes9494]

It was nice that you mentioned central america, greetings from Honduras 😊

[@GreenGnoblin]

am I the only one that watches documentaries for relaxing? it is so soothing.

[@keis9247]

If the Puerto Rico trench has a gravitational anomaly which has been known to mess with magical instruments,then it is highly likely that has something to do with the mystery of the Bermuda triangle

[@SuLokify]

The Bermuda triangle doesn't really have any more disappearances than any other highly traversed stretch of ocean.

[@Nope-sq6dv]

Sherlock Holmes over here.

[@maddieb.4282]

Magical instruments?

[@GeographyGeek]

Correction: I mispronounced Ouachita Mountains because I'm an idiot lol

[@Abheeeeee9]

I am bored and have test i can't study, help please 🗿

[@GeographyGeek]

@@Abheeeeee9 I’ve been there lol. I wish I could help. Crash Course usually has entertaining videos for most subjects.

[@dwightgrant6360]

Not an idiot, no one pronounces everything correctly all the time. Some of us have an even harder time. Languages can be vastly different, English borrows from nearly every language.

[@AnonymousBosch3158]

I laughed so much about it -> 6:57. Great video as always!

[@the_original_Bilb_Ono]

Yeah, what's up with that? How on earth did that mistake happen? even if they knew nothing about Star Wars (I'm a Star Trek fan myself) they HAD to have noticed that there is a fictional creature next to a real human and red flag should've been thrown...

[@shahd836]

I’m saudi it never happened

[@slobdog7394]

If that is true I’m better he wasn’t in the job by the follow term 👀

[@Judeey]

@@shahd836 it happened and it was all over the media

[@Judeey]

⁠@@the_original_Bilb_Onothey said that the guy who put the photo in the book took it from google without noticing yoda

[@annehersey9895]

I lived in Park City, Utah for 11 years and we used Park City City Park all the time in the short two months it wasn’t covered in snow! It is a wonderful little park and I spent most summer weekends playing softball, Over-the-Line and going to the well known Rugby Tournament that followed the Labor Day Parade each September! Great place to live until the rich people discovered Park City and turned it into Aspen!!!

[@logank444]

As someone from Michigan I've realized that there isn't as many zebra mussels because when I was a kid the water look like the Caribbean

[@newtoncooper4085]

Is it true you can't make a left in Michigan? You must go straight, then make U turn, then a right?

[@logank444]

@@newtoncooper4085 for major roads

[@newtoncooper4085]

@@logank444 Takes longer, but safer. In Jersey, no left turns on many major roads, must make a right to a ramp or 'jughandle', takes a lot longer.

[@jonesmat]

Earth casually burping and killing a bunch of people is kinda crazy

[@GeographyGeek]

Wait till you see the next video. All about earth burps.

[@remo_1231]

I woke my kids up cause I burst out laughing in bed at the Yoda picture

[@GeographyGeek]

😂

[@ruthanneseven]

This was great! Very enjoyable, and adding a bit more info would be even better. Just a bit 😊 ❤ goes a long way!

[@GeographyGeek]

Thank you! I think I'll end up making longer videos on a few of them.

[@ruthanneseven]

@GeographyGeek I look forward to that very much! We, hailing from the endlessly interesting Halls of Geekdom, salute you!

[@johnnybender2850]

I actually enjoyed this. Thank you

[@ToastedTater420]

I’ve been to the park city city park as a Utah resident.

[@nolesy34]

I love the sound, its like adverts for speaker city, and car city and so on

[@TheMrPits]

My favorite bumper sticker in Missoula Montana "restore glacial lake Missoula" Geography and glacial morphology humor.

[@carsonwolf]

Avatar was not banned in China. The 2d version was pulled off market because it was not doing well in the box office. The IMAX and 3d version were in cinemas for a long time. I lived in China during that time and experienced the hype about the movie. China has a strict quota of what foreign movies are allowed to play each year and has demanded editing/cutting of movies. However both Avatar movies were both played and did really well in box office.

[@jaytee8925]

At least Singapore has standards for presidential elections. That's how it should be!

[@ugaboga9829]

In the northern part of Norway (Troms & Finnmark) there are no mcdonalds. There is a burgerking though in the city Tromsø.

[@renejean2523]

Is there a king in Bergen?

[@ugaboga9829]

@@renejean2523 i think he lives in oslo

[@heinzklinckwort2958]

Great !! Many thanks !! Astonishing !

[@shaphyshaphy]

Would be great if i remember even one of these while i'm out socializing

[@cynnajackson4556]

As always, this was great!

[@iwawlvoyvoda5384]

this is actually pretty efficient. I have just cooked my food and was trying to find a good video and randomly saw this one. Eating food + learning something new with low effort + improving my english (english is not my native language). what can be better 🗿👍

[@knockeledup]

I’ve been to one of those McDonald’s in Andorra 😅 It was very nice!

[@KucingObesitas]

I am not bored, it just my brain being "not responding" for a couple of minute. I live in Indonesia btw so many islands

[@GeographyGeek]

Video on Indonesia coming out next week

[@Someowne]

hey, malldova is a pretty good mall in my opinion, or it could be that ive just been to like 3 diff malls in my life idk

[@SaniyaSachinm]

Thanks A Million I got New KZbin Channel from this Video to Learn More Knowledge.

[@Sneha-im5iw]

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[@ZufarAdzahan]

The Yoda story is dope!

[@lewismorrison8863]

The Scottish Highlands are also part of that ancient mountain range

[@chaunguyen2830]

The title is on point!!!!!

[@friendlyatheist9589]

We live in a flood nation we need a floatable food source. Someguy: here i present you the duck.

[@nolesy34]

Mmmm, and we need floating gravy trays to... mmm szechuan

[@nanjing78654]

I have the biggest finals exam tomorrow and i decide to watch this instead of studying

[@tlf.]

Thank you

[@whytebearconcepts]

If you think the Saudi book with Yoda making a cameo is something, in 1990 there was a Serbian biology textbook that has Nicholas Cage and Holly Hunter, cradling their stolen baby from Raising Arizona, on the COVER.

[@blindedbliss]

I wish this creator would make a poll (if you can comment one): How did you find this video? I searched: bored. I searched: geography.

[@nozrep]

8:30; ohhhh I wonder if he’s watched any of Randall Carlson’s stuff on the ice age and Lake Missoula yet? Very interesting stuff! Even if one is not into the types of theorizing that Carlson does… (not pseudo but bordering on the pseudoscience stuff😅); his theories on the ice floods from Lake Missoula are really cool to watch and think about. GeoCosmic Rex channel I think it was…

[@starwie]

I will never lose trivia game night anymore

[@josieschultz4241]

the mconalds per capita for andorra wasnt even impressive. they have one mcdonalds per 16,000 people and my hometown had two mcdonalds for 20,000 people. so yeah

[@marcosibarra7139]

Guatemala was also part of that union in central america (and the images on the video are actually from Guatemala as well)

[@thanos8107]

I was definitely bored, and then I wasn’t. Thank you kind person

[@jordanhogue7565]

Hey love the vid just make sure you disclose the ad so you don’t get in trouble

[@GeographyGeek]

Ah true! Thank you!

[@jonslayzz]

Great video!

[@nathanr4860]

I’m super stoned and this is the coolest shit thanks

[@jaewok5G]

this was very cool, it suits my short attention span inclinations very well.

[@MSeaNP]

The last cave in the video is likely the inspiration for Alan Walker's music video for the song Alone pt. II.

[@noodengr3three825]

Fascinating all thanks

[@GeographyGeek]

No problem!

[@misseli1]

On the one hand, the absurdity of some of these makes me wonder if this is a belated April fools video. On the other hand, some of these seem very real.

[@lifeoutsidecomfortzone]

I be zoomin’ my broomin’ at 149 meters like ‘catch me outside’

[@TheSpiritombsableye]

Valiant effort on the segue.

[@angellee9307]

Learning is hobby! 😍👍🏽

[@larryhankins3586]

The Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas is pronounced "washita".

[@nlpnt]

- Many 17th and 18th century maps show Lake Champlain as being wider east-to-west than north-to-south. It was not until the 1750s that its' orientation was consistently depicted correctly. - Beverly Hills and West Hollywood, California are possibly the world's only co-enclaves. They border each other and together are entirely surrounded by the City of Los Angeles.

[@gloriasymes4290]

What does your second paragraph mean?

[@Anasyub]

Titles like this is almost a guarantee for me to click

[@majestic4774]

Hell yeah this rocks

[@johnconnorcunningham7820]

Awesome job, as always. So fun.

[@ryanhood6421]

This is the perfect KZbin video.

[@scubarubanzaii]

I drove by the Park City City Park a few days ago with my dad. Made a joke about it.

[@sebastianhernandez5365]

The United Nations of Central America was not conformed of only Honduras, Salvador and Nicaragua. Guatemala and Costa Rica were a part of it as well. “Provincias Unidas del Centro de America” name in Spanish. Not hate just here to support. Great vid.

[@cjisyourdad461]

keyword "bored" goes hard

[@ahha6304]

Danube river in Turkish language is Tuna 🐟

[@JayygotdaJuiice]

Started off with a banger🤣🤣

[@kojiyaw]

Earthquake diplomacy is kinda wholesome