American Reacts to Fascinating Pictures of Europe I Can't Explain..

[@whitecompany18]

The thatched hay stack is just that, a stack of winter hay, raised on stone mushrooms to keep rats and mice out and the thatch roof to keep it dry 👍

[@digidol52]

And now those stone mushrooms are popular to place decoratively in gardens, maybe along a drive. The hay now gets baled in large cylinder shapes and wrapped in plastic.

[@jmi5969]

Herbs and mushrooms, a gentleman's choice.

[@module79l28]

Here in northern Portugal, back in the old days, we had something similar called "espigueiro" but to store grain (corn, wheat, etc). They were made of stone or stone and wood, and were also put on top of mushroom-like pillars. 🙂

[@adpop750]

Yeah, what is a haystack used for, it's a big enigma 🤣🤣🤣 I guess he had a brain-fart when he asked that question. 😀😀😀

[@baumgrt]

⁠@@module79l28 this seems to be pretty universal. In the mountainous/alpine regions of Switzerland, especially in Valais, there’s similar structures on older buildings. Sometimes the pillars are made from wood, but the actual top part of the building is resting on stone slabs that are much wider than the pillars and as such cannot be climbed by rats or mice from the bottom.

[@vounsky]

@13:00 thta's actually pretty common in Poland in rural areas - it is a village and it has one street, because there is a one main road - think wild west "towns" but stretched along the road for a mile or two. One of the effect of this, as you can see on the picture - see those narrow lines - that's because each house needed to have a field for surviving, but also wanted to have it near - so they settled on long narrow strips like that.

[@walkir2662]

And those long, narrow strips were great for medieval plows best used withoutturning. Although you usually had three long strips, not just one, so you could rotate crops between them.

[@dutchman7623]

We have the same in the Netherlands, area is even called 'Langstraat' (Long Street) and stretches for 30 km with here and there a little bit more village like build up. Houses are build according the narrow strips, while the road gently bends through, making it look like the houses go forward and backward...

[@alex__andrei]

We also have these types of villages in Romania as well. They’re mostly found in Transylvania but you can find these pretty much in other regions too.

[@DenUitvreter]

In more densely populated areas it's usually lack of spatial planning. In the Netherlands it's often along a canal, in Belgium mostly along roads. "Linear settlement" is seen as undesirable because it urbanizes quite a bit of the country side without housing many. It is not a good shape for community and efficiency within it, and means there is a road to cross for many people very often and that will lead to more accidents.

[@matsv201]

Its almost by definition a village only have one street. or really road. now in modern time the definition have change a bit, and current day definition of a village is a settlement that is administrated from a other town. The ceiling of what is considered a village today To day a village is typically in the range of 100-2000 people, while anything below 100 is considered a hamlet. If we go back to medieval times a a village would be more in the range of 50-500 people. if i remember correctly the village in the photo have a population of 3000 people, and would there for in international terms be considered a Town, while its really not how it works.

[@sweety1746]

@6:12 That building was designed by Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser. He was mainly a painter, but also an architect with around 40 buildings realized around the world, but mainly in Austria and Germany. I've personally been to the train station in Uelzen and it's really interesting as you hardly find any harsh, straight lines or corners, everything is flowing and wiggely.

[@BackfeetBoi]

Hundertswasser once said "Die gerade Linie ist Gottlos" ("The straight line is ungodly") So you you won't find a straight line. He strongly believed in natural shapes

[@jihanaGMX]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/iqm0dnenmryZepY That's a short promotional video about the spa in Bad Blumau, designed by Hundertwasser. It's like it's own world, no straight lines, trees on the roofs of the hotel, everything is very flowy and organic. I'm going there on Tuesday 🙂

[@flauschiger_keks]

Making watches is an actual profession here. You have to learn it for several years to call yourself Uhrmachermeister/in, it‘s more than just gears :)

[@MsLovelybeats]

Yeah I was looking for this comment ..it's really not simpler than we think...😅

[@CallioNyx]

@@MsLovelybeats If anything it's more complicated. At least if it's an old fashioned one; with electricity it's a lot easier. Even if you still have the challenge of making a clock run at the same speed while it's on full battery or near-empty.

[@Patrik6920]

@@MsLovelybeats definetly not simpler than Ian thinks ... i belive he would be amazed ..Again .. lol ...

[@Diveyl]

Yes. A lot of gears and springs. With precision tools it got easier to make, and computer operating power tools making precision gear is easier then ever. You have to admire masters of the craft that designed and made complicated mechanisms that had to fit in a small container. This here not only runs time measuring mechanism but also periodically runs additional mechanism for moving parts, that in addition make noise. And all of that in rather compact form that was made by a goldsmith. Granted that most if the clocks (containers) are made around the mechanism they encompass, hardly the mechanism is made for preexisting container.

[@BackfeetBoi]

Especially considering this one was made between 1800 and 1900. Like back then it was all manual labour over hours and days. Sure today it's "easier" when you buy a normal of the shelf watch. But back then this was pain staken craftsmanship.

[@lewycraft]

The village at 13:00 is quite common sight in Poland and most of Eastern and Central Europe. Back in the past, villages were mostly built around the sparse roads that were present and to make it easier to use said roads, houses were built only by them as new roads spreading outwards couldn't be really made at the time. I live in a town of Łomianki, some 50k people and it is a former village turned town and it operates on simmilar principle, with whole thing built along 2 main roads and everything between them.

[@mmllmmll22]

Wassup from Będzin 🤣

[@lewycraft]

@@mmllmmll22 A witam, witam

[@tkol123]

A village with one road running through it is very common in Pannonia: Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia. Every house has equal access to a road and in the back there's a field to grow crops for each household. No need to travel to far off fields, it's in your back yard. Disadvantages are no communal center, difficult to defend, hard to expand in any direction but the road, a sprawl. Very common style in flat lands, when you aren't hindered by the enviroment.

[@IWrocker]

I like it! I had no idea 🎉

[@europeangardenflower9812]

We have those villages also in the Netherlands. They are called 'lint dorpen' =ribbon villages. Nearly every house has its own strip of agracultural land, just like in the Polish picture.

[@tkol123]

@europeangardenflower9812 when defence is not an issue, you tend to get this kind of development in the flat parts of the country.

[@europeangardenflower9812]

​@@tkol123 what do you mean with defence?

[@alexanderkupke920]

@@europeangardenflower9812 Some other kingdom, country or whatever it was at the time invading you.

[@klarasee806]

Piccadilly Circus in London is also famous for its neon signs, but the number of billboards there was also greatly reduced a long time ago (80s or 90s, I think). Since then, advertising has only been allowed on a single, huge, segmented video wall on the facade of one building. It certainly depends on how you grew up, but I personally really like the European restraint when it comes to outdoor advertising, and I hope it doesn't change. Apart from the light pollution, I think large billboards also tend to spoil the aesthetics and obscure the real beauty of cities and landscapes or distract from it. Apart from that, I really don't need to be bombarded with advertising outside in the fresh air. I think this constant flood of stimuli and information is unhealthy.

[@Obi-J]

Saved me typing it.👍

[@luidesalph1493]

The Silver Snipers is a Swedish esports team consisting of players aged 60 and above, primarily competing in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO). Founded in 2017 and sponsored by Lenovo, the team was created to showcase that gaming is not just for younger generations. Despite their age, the Silver Snipers have achieved remarkable success, including winning the Senior CS:GO World Cup at DreamHack Summer 2019 by defeating the Grey Gunners in the finals. Beyond their competitive accomplishments, they’ve broken age-related stereotypes and inspired broader acceptance of older gamers within the esports community. Their story proves that age is no barrier to pursuing and excelling in competitive gaming.

[@siebensunden]

I thought they are former military snipers. So it's not that case, they are just regular gamers?

[@luidesalph1493]

@@siebensunden Thank you for your response! When I first heard about the Silver Snipers, I was genuinely surprised by their story and accomplishments-I even thought they might be retired military at first! It’s amazing to see how they’ve succeeded competitively while also breaking stereotypes about age in gaming. Truly inspiring!

[@Maireadmoss]

"How is that not more famous?" - IT IS! but only in the not-America world.

[@bencze465]

never heard of it, im european..

[@DerEchteBold]

I'm usually all for America bashing as it's mostly rightfully so but not in this case. I'm kinda sure I've seen something about these ice waves at some point but not enough to actually remember it much, so I'd agree with him, it's definitely not what could be called 'famous', especially not in a modern media sense.

[@rickardelimaa]

Can't rule out that I'm uneducated, but as a Swede, I never heard of any of these, and two of the items on the list are even Swedish.

[@Bunny_Aoife]

I was in ice caves here in Austria, but never heard of those ice waves either

[@nimwey7701]

That was not in Denmark with the trashcans but in The Netherlands, because the car text also says Dank zij GTL which means thanks to GTL in Dutch

[@caelorum]

Traffic signs and street layout are a dead giveaway too. The number plates of course also help.

[@matsv201]

Same system is used in Denmark, Portugal and Spain as well. So the text is .. not wrong, but a bit misleading. I think the system is probobly used in some areas of Italy, France and England as well. It not used in the north, like Sweden and norway because the system don´t handle very low temperatures well

[@caelorum]

@@matsv201 of course, but i also don't show a picture of a US house and subtitle it with: People live in houses in the EU. The person who came up with the subtitle either was lazy in finding Danish video or did not know what was actually shown.

[@thierryf67]

@@caelorum and that's often the case in all the sh-t that's published on the net. too much lazy and greedy peoples.

[@COPPAS70]

@@matsv201Nah, there are similar systems in Sweden nowadays. They’re heated.

[@domiiinik4320]

That music festival is Tomorrowland, the biggest electronic music festival in the world and one of the biggest music festivals in the world

[@begui2613]

I thought so! It still surprises me how huge it is and how many people have never heard about it!😅

[@gerbentvandeveen]

I like, more. PINKPOP ore LO lANDS. But twomorroland, Belgium. If? You like music? You no.

[@antonycharnock2993]

Closest to that in the UK would be Boomtown Fair with specially built sets but that looks amazing!

[@domiiinik4320]

@@antonycharnock2993 Nah, it's Creamfields probably Or Glastonbury

[@kille-4B]

In Denmark the half dug down trashcontainers are called a molok/ molokker. They have a sensor that sends a signal when it’s time for it to be emptied, it saves a lot of driving.

[@ce17ec]

Netherlands: Text on the trash truck is Dutch. And we have these systems all over the country.

[@kille-4B]

@ Hello 👋 my Dutch friend, I wasn’t trying to say the Netherlands don’t have these systems, I was explaining what we call them in Denmark and how they work here. Our two countries are very much alike ❤️

[@thierryvanmol9167]

They also exist in Switzerland, where they are called 'Moloch'. And there too they send a signal when they are almost full.

[@europeangardenflower9812]

I think many European countries have these containers.

[@antonycharnock2993]

They've just started installing them in the city centre in Sheffield UK

[@abarratt8869]

@3:45 the thatched haystack. Yes, that's how such material was stored. It was kept up off the ground to remain dry and less riddled with rodents. The thatching on the top kept rain from seeping in and rotting it. The hay would have been used for livestock feed throughout the winter. If it was straw, then it'd have been used bedding material in animals winter pens.

[@matsv201]

16:36 the story is true, the picture is fake. He actually had a large Jeep. He was on is way to the cabin, and had plenty of food with him. By the very end he had no food and no gas left in the car. He was days a way from frezing to death when some scooter drivers found him. He did lose a lot of weight.

[@yaonyaon9460]

I can imagine he did. No matter how much warmth can be retained in such a setting the temperature must still be very low. To sustain his body temperature he must have catabolized most of his fats. Besides, he may have survived only because he wasn't too slim in the beginning.

[@matsv201]

@yaonyaon9460 its a bit more comlucated than in the article. While it was -30C a few days. Most days it was between 0 and -10C. He did have a lot of gas in the car so he could idle a few hours a day the first month. He did have quite a lot of food. But not sufficent to survive the whole period. He was on the way to his cabin where he was expected to stay snowed in over the winter. He wasnt very fat. He was about 70kg that is a fairly low weight even considering he was kind of short. He was 45kg at the end.

[@darek4488]

Cherokee is not a large Jeep, and that's what he apparently had.

[@Astuga]

It is time to make this American an honorary European.

[@Muck006]

Not until he has been here ... in every part of the continent ... from skiing in the alps ... to driving a car on a test track in Sweden in winter ... to the sandy forest tracks of Poland/Brandenburg ... to the "perfect driving roads" in Switzerland ... and so on.

[@101steel4]

He is a European 😉

[@kasperkjrsgaard1447]

With Ian around, I haven’t given up all hope to the former colony out in the west. But is holding my breath right now.

[@nazi0zombie]

my friends and I have made an honorary european out of our american friend from oregon. What you have to do is not only learn all of these little niche things, but you have to drink insane amounts of vodka wtihout dying, get into a couple fist fights and learn at least one european language that is not english

[@smiechuwarte-qt8pn]

13:00 The largest village in Poland in terms of area is Zawoja. Located in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in the Sucha County, on the border with Slovakia, the village covers an area of ​​over 100 square kilometers and is 18 km long, which also makes it the longest Polish village. Interestingly, this village with less than 6.5 thousand residents - despite not having city rights - is very popular among tourists. In turn, the largest village in Poland in terms of population is Kozy in the Silesian Voivodeship. According to data available in the GUS database, in 2022 the village recorded 12,271 inhabitants. For comparison - in Opatowice, the least populated Polish city, only 338 people live.

[@grimperpl]

The village in 13:50 is Sułoszowa near Kraków in POland. It's famous for being second longest village in POland and for it's limestone valley and a Pieskowa Skała Castle.

[@Tom-Lahaye]

The type of village layout in that picture in Poland is what's called ribbon development. Essentially these formed over ages where people built houses along an existing road and also owning the thin ribbon of land up to quite a distance behind the house they were able to grow crops for their own needs and sell the surplus at markets. They exist all over Europe and even the modern strip mall in the US is a form of this. Often villages and cities would form where roads met in a junction or crossing and then ribbons of houses radiate out from this central point. Over time more development would take place around the central point and new streets added around these, creating towns and cities as we know them. Only exception were those cities which formed as part or inside a fortification or around a castle with city walls extended around them. Most major cities in Europe are of this type. Then the poor people which couldn't afford to live within city walls would build along the roads leading to the city in this ribbon pattern, unprotected against gangs of robbers and enemies. Modern development in the form of suburbs only came with industrialisation where concentrations of people working in the factories had to be housed.

[@luidesalph1493]

Iceland's breathtaking ice caves have become a favorite filming location for their otherworldly beauty and surreal atmosphere, appearing in several iconic productions. These natural wonders have provided the perfect backdrop for fantastical and adventurous stories, including Game of Thrones, where the caves were used to depict the icy landscapes beyond the Wall. Their shimmering blue ice and intricate formations make them a cinematic dream, bringing a touch of magic and authenticity to the screen in everything from fantasy series to blockbuster films.

[@nicoladc89]

Iceland is the location of the Miller's Planet and Mann's Planet in Interstellar. They really seems strange exoplanets...

[@Criseteno]

I lived in Darmstadt for almost 5 years and the Waldspirale (designed by a famous architect called Hundertwasser) is a truly amazing building. No two windows are the same, and the building gives you the feeling you've stepped into a Grimm tale. Nice that you featured it here !

[@Bunny_Aoife]

I've never heard of the Waldspirale before but there is a Hundertwasser spa (Rogner Bad Blumau) near me in Austria, an amazing place. And the waste incineration building in Vienna was also designed by Hundertwasser.

[@heindaddel2531]

I also lived in Darmstadt for almost 10 years. I loved the Waldspirale from the outside but didn’t really want to live in these apartments since no regular furniture would fit inside due to the couverture of the walls 😂

[@Real_MisterSir]

About the Danish coins, there are 3 types with subsets. 1st are 10 and 20 Crown coins, they come in two sizes with no holes (and are of a brass color). 2nd are 1, 2, and 5 Crown coins of 3 different sizes, and all with holes in them (they're of silver color like shown on picture) 3rd are 50 Ears (similar to cents), they are small and thin with no holes, and have a copper color. We used to have smaller 25 Ear coins up until 2008 when they were officially discontinued. The holes make it easier to distinguish between the types of coins for people with vision impairment so you can easily feel what coin you're holding.

[@faust82]

Norway has the exact same thing, except we don't have a 2 krone coin. 50 øre (ears, .5 krone) is a small copper colored coin. 1 and 5 kroner are silver color with holes, 10 and 20 gold/brass color without holes. The 5 and 10 coins also have serrated edges. All this allows blind people (and machines) to easily identify the coins.

[@alexanderkupke920]

Some history about holes in coins. Some of the earliest coins known to us today actually had holes in them. That way you could string them up licke a necklace and could carry them more easily. For some coins it got stuck until today, where it is just kind of a traditional design feature. Also it makes it harder to produce counterfeit coins and as mentioned, people with limited vision can easily distinguish them, if for example the rim has a specific design as well, if there is more than one value with a hole.

[@bjørnjacobsengaming]

10:46 The video itself is from the Netherlands, but we have that type of bins in Denmark, although mostly in the bigger cities where there are many apartments, like where I live in Brøndby Strand. In any case, I have not seen them in areas with ordinary houses, there I have only seen the typical plastic bins and where there are several for the same household for waste sorting, typically one for food, cardboard, plastic and metal. We make a lot of recycling and waste sorting in Denmark.

[@CatsLilaSalem]

9:37 in my country those are mostly used for appartements, and houses have their own containers. You also need to scan a pass to open them

[@noangelhonestly]

The festival is in Boom, Belgium. The décor is every year very special, like this year the flower opened during the opening of Tomorrowland. It's now so huge and popular that now it has a counterpart in Georgia I believe. It's worth checking out on youtube as it has been around for years.

[@Tyu-f1s]

There's also a TML in french alps during winter

[@mariokuppers5686]

Brasil & Alp d´ Huez in France Tomorrowland Winter.

[@BoredSquirell]

10:00 Yes, that's how underground trash containers usually work. There are several models actually with slightly different mechanisms. It's a big investment for a city so you wont see it everywhere. And relatively slow to collect compared to the above ground version, which can be unloaded in a couple of seconds.

[@antonycharnock2993]

They have just started installing them in Sheffield UK in the city centre and it's taking ages.

[@furyjeje8831]

We've got a lot of those in France and not only in big cities. Mine is 80k people and we got multiple of those. Its prety common in France nowadays

[@Joey-ct8bm]

This was a video from my country the Netherlands, not Denmark. I can see the yellow license plates and place Groningen on the side. Lots of countries have them here indeed. Got 4 in front of my apartment. Even got a special card to be able to open them. We also have them for glass and clothing. Those are without a card. I always know when they collect, because you hear glass shatter. With the card they can see when as trashcan is full by how many times they got used. It's a smart city system. We used to have the old ones too, without the smartcity system. We also got bike and foot traffic lights with rain censors. When it rains foot and bike traffic go first. Near the place Eindhoven you got one piece of highway where you've not streetlight, but the road paint gives light. It's a kind of breaklight idea. Just a small piece of road though. Infrastructure is probably the best of the world in my country. We also have houses on water that go with the tide. Bike lanes everywhere. You can do my whole country on a bike. It's pretty nice.

[@BlackHoleSpain]

Spain's 25 pesetas coin in the 1990's also had a hole in the center. They had lot of series with different commemorative designs. Some of them were regional, like 50 State Quarters Program.

[@marioallves]

I still have one hanging on the pointed finger of a saint. Can't remember if it was for luck or blessing and can no longer ask my great aunt. Do you know that tradition?

[@BlackHoleSpain]

@@marioallves I'm afraid I never heard of such tradition.

[@mukkaar]

9:15 those signs are cool, but that's really only at night, like in the picture. Daytime that picture would look pretty crap.

[@anouk6644]

Especially on that old architecture. The buildings on Times Square are quite hideous so it’s less of an eye sore during the day.

[@marcinsikocinski4661]

"Chainmail" is a new term popularized by fantasy and computer games etc. The correct term is "mail" or "maille". About the "suburb" in Poland. It looks like a village. To be precise like one of the types of the village structure that is popular in Poland. "Ulicówka" (ulica - street) - a village built along the one long street, instead e.g. around the central square or something. I am not sure about the "suburb", but it is quite possible that the village existed near the city and was at some point so close to the growing city that it was added to the city's administrative zone. In such a case I believe that calling it a "suburb" would be correct.

[@LarkspeedNL]

"Chainmail" is a new term popularized by fantasy and computer games etc. The correct term is "mail" or "maille". Nice idea but incorrect, the term Chainmail originated in the 1780s long before computer games or even computers for that matter. it first appeared in the Francis Grose's book "A Treatise on Ancient Armor and Weapons".

[@marcinsikocinski4661]

@LarkspeedNL interesting ❤️ So it is older than I knew. Thanks 😀 Still, I hope you will agree that it's not a correct term and that it became widely popularized by the use in fantasy books, games etc.

[@joannah4120]

10:54 The sculpture is in the south-western part of Romania, near the city of Orșova, in Mehedinți County. It is the face of Decebalus, the last king of Dacia. He fought against the Roman Empire. When he was defeated in AD106 he killed himself to avoid being taken prisoner. The sculpture is 55 m (180 ft) in height and 25 m (82 ft) in width and it took them 10 years to finish it. It is on the Romanian shore of the Danube river - the natural border with Serbia in this location. You can see some words under the face: DECEBALUS REX - DRAGAN FECIT("King Decebalus-Made by Drăgan").

[@lydia5232]

7:06 There is a saying in our country: "The mountain is not crazy - the crazy one is the one, who goes up." 😄 9:31 We have them in Slovenia too. These are called "submersible garbage collectors". You need a card that you hold up to the reader screen. The lid automatically unlocks and opens, you throw the garbage in and close the lid. The underground mechanism also has a scale and when the quota is full, it doesn't open anymore. (That's why you see garbage bags next to it.) In urban areas, they are intended for residents. This is due to space, as classic garbage containers take up a lot of space.

[@Pawel__M]

The village in Poland where all the residents live along a single street is called Sułoszowa. It is located in southern Poland, about 29 kilometers northwest of Kraków. Sułoszowa is home to around 3,500 people, and the main street stretches for approximately 9 kilometers, with houses and fields arranged in a linear fashion along this one road. Sułoszowa is nicknamed "Little Tuscany" due to its picturesque and unusual appearance. The longest village street in Poland is in Zawoja (18 kilometers), also in southern Poland, but this village has a number of shorter streets as well. BTW, I like the video and your comments, as usual. However, Switherland, Iceland and the UK are not in the European Union, so the EU flag on the thumbnaili a bit confusing. I know, I know, an average American viewer may see no difference, but still...(EDIT: I was wrong regarding the blue flag with yellow stars. It can represent both the EU and the whole of Europe. See the reply below.)

[@mixal1608]

Note that while the flag is most associated with EU, it is also a flag of Europe in general, adopted by Council of Europe in 1955. EU just copied the already existing european flag.

[@Pawel__M]

​ @mixal1608 I checked some EU sources. You're correct.😃 I'm eating my words.

[@JDoeX]

I am from Estonia, I participated in window cleaning cup couple of years ago. Got 4th place, it was insane, over 50 contestants. Surprisingly way more men than women.

[@tiapina7048]

Why surprisingly? The majority of window cleaners are men.

[@Joey-ct8bm]

Do you do 4th floor windows on the outside?😂

[@pedroleal7118]

That trash system is for glass bottles, and they are all over Europe, due to recycling norms. The noise they make when emptied is something I would like to sample! Take care!

[@krzysztofchlebowski6856]

13:00 it is Słuszowa village. 3,5K people on 1 Street. This type of village have 1 big advantage: less roads mean more fields.

[@Madpegasusmax]

Do you know if the street limited to 30Km/h ? because it seems a very long street :3

[@codefident4939]

isn't it "Sułoszowa", quite close to Kraków?

[@krzysztofchlebowski6856]

@Madpegasusmax I don't know If there is special speed limit, but in general in the building area in Poland speed limit is 50 km/h.

[@krzysztofchlebowski6856]

@@codefident4939 around 35km

[@janisvindavs]

The village is clustered around a single street, one of the longest in Poland at around 9 kilometers. In 2013, the population was 5,800.

[@matsv201]

10:40 This method is used in multiple European countries including Denmark and Netherlands, but more so southern Europe. This system work poorly at very low temperature. If its just a few degrees under freezing, its not really a problem, but if its like -20C, it don´t work. So it tend to not be used in northern Europe or the mountain area. In large cities in Sweden fully enclosed system is used in steed. Its also worth saying that in some areas they camouflage the area around the bin with tiles, to make it look like its just part of the ground around.

[@nicoladc89]

In Italy a few years ago there was a bit of a trend to install dumpsters like that, not only have they stopped doing it, but even those already installed will be removed. They are more of a problem than a benefit. The current trend, at least in not too large cities, is to completely remove the dumpsters, which has also significantly increased the percentage of separate waste collection, which has also significantly increased the percentage of separate waste collection (now at percentages above 80% in places where this system exists)

[@negofol5278]

The underground trash containers are fairly common in Europe. They are often installed in groups fto allow trash sorting for recycling.

[@joknaepkens]

About the garbage cans: we have them all over Europe. They are basically for apartment complexes where a lot of people need to get rid of their trash. Putting it underground is more pleasing to the eye and keeps the vermin (and the smells) away.

[@archloy]

The trash at 10:00 is also common in france. Practical, sure, but when you have the place for the truck (and you're not the guy waiting behind in a car... x) )

[@mikolajgrotowski]

In Poland, this type of village with one street was very common. Now, most of them have some additional streets, and fewer people work in agriculture, and more work in nearby cities. But these villages far from cities still have this type of structure, where every home is on the main road and has its strip of field.

[@jonathangoll2918]

In the modern Cotswolds you don"t see a sight quite like this, although both haystacks and thatching still very much exist. The 'stone mushrooms' are called 'staddle stones' and were intended to baffle rats. They're now worth a fortune! And tend to be treasured garden ornaments; that is, if nobody steals them... The Vasconic inscription is probably included because the Basque language ( Euskara) is so interesting. The Basques are believed to descend from the Vascones tribe, which were around in Roman times. Euskara is related to no other language, and may well be the ancient Stone Age language originally spoken in western Europe before the New Stone Age farmers came. Both its structure and its vocabulary are not related to other European languages. There are villages in England which are all along a road too. They are often called 'Long', as in Long Compton.

[@Kyragos]

These thrash containers can be found in several countries. I have these in my area in France. Really convenient. You just have to put your trash in it whenever you want. No "mobile" container to put outside on the right day, almost no overflowing, limited smells, no pests. Of course, there are different types of containers for different types of waste. Seeing a truck emptying these and putting them back in their hole is certainly a sight the first times.

[@padmeamidala4883]

We have them in Switzerland, for aesthetic reasons I think. In October 2023 a girl fall in one of them in Lugano (we never discovered how) and had to be saved by the firefighters.

[@Kyragos]

@@padmeamidala4883 I hope she got out fine. For the ones here, I hardly see how anyone could fall in, at least unintentionally. The opening for recyclable waste containers isn't large enough for anything bigger than a baby, if we really have to make this kind of comparison, and the one for household waste containers is a kind of heavy double hatch you have to pull from the top. I guess a small child could go inside the latter ones, but certainly not intentionally and not by themself (too high and some strength needed).

[@Joey-ct8bm]

This was a video from my country the Netherlands, not Denmark. I can see the yellow license plates and place Groningen on the side. Lots of countries have them here indeed. Got 4 in front of my apartment. Even got a special card to be able to open them. We also have them for glass and clothing. Those are without a card. I always know when they collect, because you hear glass shatter. With the card they can see when as trashcan is full by how many times they got used. It's a smart city system. We also got bike and foot traffic lights with rain censors. When it rains foot and bike traffic go first. Near the place Eindhoven you got one piece of highway where you've not streetlight, but the road paint gives light. It's a kind of breaklight idea. Just a small piece of road though. Infrastructure is probably the best of the world in my country. We also have houses on water that go with the tide. Bike lanes everywhere. You can do my whole country on a bike. It's pretty nice.

[@Phamy]

The Polish village is something you see in a lot of european countries. There are a lot of them in the Netherlands too. Here they are called Ribbon Villages. Because they go on like a long ribbon. Usually these type of one street villages were created by Farmers. So you have the farm house on either side of the road with originally the land behind the house owned by the farmer. Nowadays a lot of these farmhouses and barns have been turned into normal homes and the land is divided between several bigger farmers. It allows farmers to live live in a village but still have their own land.

[@dianabialaskahansen2972]

The trash can is Netherlands, but we do have something like that in Denmark too, usually in apartment buildings. It contains trash from all the people in the building(s). Normal homes and companies have normal city standard trash cans.

[@brunopoterie9114]

they are quite common in France, too

[@Joey-ct8bm]

We've the smart city ones with a card now in the Netherlands. They can see when they need collect by how many times the cards gets swiped. We also have them for glass and clothing in the Netherlands. Good eye. How did you know it was my country? I saw it easily, but you're not from my country. Could've been like 8 European countries. Maybe more.

[@dianabialaskahansen2972]

​@@Joey-ct8bmThe language on the truck. At least as far as I am aware Dutch is the only language using dankzij for thank you. And that is one of the few words of Dutch I still remember after a trip in my childhood. Though I guess it could have maybe been South Africa instead.

[@laurentpaumier3103]

Underground recycling trash bins are common in many european countries.

[@armandorodrigues144]

09:38 it is not only in Denmark or the Netherlands and it makes a lot of sense everywhere but specially for European countries in Portugal we also have those in some rural areas, but in big cities we have some "high-tech" ones that compact the garbage and have lights to signal when those are full

[@MeYou-ww9xk]

I am not so sure if this one in particular is Dutch. I've not come across orange garbage trucks. But definitely we have a lot of these underground garbage containers!

[@ozfunghi]

Belgium uses this also for glass containers.

[@vounsky]

about the watch from 1:30 - it is one of the most expensive (or met in expensive watches) complication - the chiming. It was top of the line back in centuries when - guess what - there was no electricity or public lights, so when it got dark you had to wait for moonlight or had another way of telling the time at dark - hence the chiming/bells that would tell the time. Bonus fun fact - the movement of bells where often used for animations - like those two blacksmiths, but "quite common" if you can say that, were watches with erotic animations :)

[@pietergreveling]

Now you're just making up some stuff! 🤔 There where already street lights, centuries before electricity, keep in mind, the oil lamp is more than 15000 years old! 🤷‍♂️ But i had to laugh, when he said the extra movement was probably simple! 🤣✌🏼

[@vounsky]

@@pietergreveling ah,of course. And I suppose every village, house, palace and city corner was light up by a government ministry of Oil Lamp supply.

[@pietergreveling]

@@vounsky You can presume whatever you want, because that's what already you do! 🤣👍🏻

[@CallioNyx]

I think the 'window cleaning world cup' thing is actually a competition between cleaning maid services. It's got a bit of renown within the business. The icelandic stuff... we have similar in Norway, near glaciers. Ice does funny stuff(tm) when it's cold for long enough, especially if you combine it with rivers or occasional dripping water; also, rivers under glaciers create the most fascinating vistas. Now, the thing that really is unusual in iceland is the same but with volcanic runoff; all the heavy metals create these amazing color patterns. Thatch roof thing - I got nothin'. Sorry. Oh, england 45 - they stil have old houses from the time when roofs were thatched. It's probably a way to prepare the thatch for use in construction/maintenance. Those roofs need changing somewhat often. The times square thing... I would have liked the comparison to be with a night picture. The next is apartment complex waste disposal, recycling. It's common all over the place. That blue flower stage setup is just cool. :) The polish suburb thing - picture: Town surrounded by farming fields. The only place you can spread out is along the roads, because that's an area farmers don't mind selling and it's already lost to road. So that's where suburbia spreads. Towns grow organically over centuries, and that's what you get. Snowflake on fabric... huh. Not sure about that one. I also live in a cold climate and it doesn't normally form like that. I guess unusual mixes of humidity and cold could cause it, but that's not normal snowflakes. Silver snipers? Cool ballers. Probably the typical story of grandparents learning their kids' hobby to stay conncted. Or just pioneer IT guys. Or both. Can't say I know of them though. Deep in my memory somewhere I recall the story of Peter Skyllberg. Pretty amazing. Must have been amazingly boring, scary, and ... pretty effing horrible, really.

[@la-go-xy]

Thanks for the background on glaciers! So, single crystal snowflakes are that rare? Probably that's why they were posted..

[@gunner38ED]

3:45 you can see construction raised on stones on top of a wider horizontal stone slab all through Europe, traditionally used as storage. It was done to keep the rodents from entering the storage and nesting or eating the food (like cured meat, corn, etc..). The design and materials used to build them changes from region to region, but the concept is the same.

[@XPLOOO]

Its not an ordinary festival.. Its Tomorrowland.. pretty well known on this planet.

[@b1ca]

and bros have Tomorrowworld in the states

[@pablow26]

The “trash in Denmark” is actually in the Netherlands. It’s how the underground containers are emptied. You just throw your trash in there instead of waiting wor garbage day.

[@christopherjensen3034]

We have the same system in Denmark.

[@jetfowl]

Braga and Porto use a similar system in Portugal.

[@francoisbourriaud9646]

​@@jetfowlseen also in France, in downtown areas of cities (not Paris !)

[@spiel85]

hey there, basque guy here, and to think I had to watch a guy watching european things to find out more about my mother tongue lol. To put into a bit of context, basque, or euskara as we call it, is quite an old language still spoken today here in the Basque Country (small region in northern part of Spain). As of today, still holds the classification of language isolate, meaning, no links to other known language families. I guess that could open some new research? nice to know!

[@marcorolandogomes9297]

Hello from Madeira island, Portugal. About those trash cans, we have them all over Funchal (the capital city) and now they're being installed all over the island but it's a work in progress. Best wishes to you all 🇵🇹

[@Joey-ct8bm]

This was a video from my country the Netherlands, not Denmark. I can see the yellow license plates and place Groningen on the side. Lots of countries have them here indeed. Got 4 in front of my apartment. Even got a special card to be able to open them. We also have them for glass and clothing. Those are without a card. I always know when they collect, because you hear glass shatter. With the card they can see when as trashcan is full by how many times they got used. It's a smart city system. We also got bike and foot traffic lights with rain censors. When it rains foot and bike traffic go first. Near the place Eindhoven you got one piece of highway where you've not streetlight, but the road paint gives light. It's a kind of breaklight idea. Just a small piece of road though. Infrastructure is probably the best of the world in my country. We also have houses on water that go with the tide. Bike lanes everywhere. You can do my whole country on a bike. It's pretty nice.

[@soqslicer]

the thrashcan is indeed netherlands, every couple hundred meters we got 4 of these bins, pretty much, which in turn lets u throw ur thrash in there and they pick it up once a week, instead of having bins etc, we still have them aswell but these are alot more commonly used and is really practical, as of late we also have mail delivery boxes standing near these which u can pick up ur parcels if u either missed it or wanted to pick it up there making it very convenient

[@henriikkak2091]

Space is at a premium in Europe. Underground waste containers are absolutely a thing. A Finnish company called Molok Oy operates in 40 countries. They don't have metal underground containers, though. It's a giant bag in a cylindrical and often wood-clad container.

[@ane-louisestampe7939]

Plenty of "Molokker" in my small Danish town.

[@JohnRoberts-pt8cu]

The chain mail is used when you're on shark watch. it looks like the same fine mech that divers use, so it's good against a knife or sword, but not too good against an ice pick.

[@Busfles984]

On the side of the trash can truck it says "Dankzij" this is dutch for "Thanks to" in english or "Takket være" in danish. In the street in the back you see cars with yellow dutch licence plates and a traffic sign with dutch words.

[@bartuutgrunn622]

Under Dankzij stands Groningen in black and the citylogo is on the door. I know. I live there

[@UltraSuperDuperFreak]

9:35 We have several version of those where i live aswell. They on the street open for any to use. But they are intended for those living in the apartment complexes next to there placement. When you open the lid it rolls around and open like a giant "tray" and you put your trashbags in. Then you slide the lid down to close and then container rolls around and trash fall down the underground storage area. Its no possible for animal to get in the trash this way. Litterly no direct access to the trash when its open. We have diffirent versions aswell. One for paper and cardboard in smaller pieces. Another is for glass and metal. A third is for plastic. A fourth for bio waste (like food scraps etc) and then theres regular trash. Everything else we have shed with various bins we can throw more difficult stuff to get rid off. One for electronic, One for batteries, One for dangerous material (paint, spray paint, left over or empty bottle that have contained various dangerous fluids. One big metal that doesn fit in the one outside. We also can place old funicher and such here which and they get it of them for us. And lastly there a big container for anything alse that is too big for the sorting systems i just mentioned. So yea, the area i live everything is sorted. These container we see in this vidoe is being phased out currently. Being placed with a similar system, but they stand on the ground. I forgot the reason, think it was because this current system is very expencive to run or something. Especially when "idiots" dont do as directed and throw the wrong stuff in the wrong container and block the system completely. I could film me throwing various kind of trash out if you want to see them in use and give you link . I even live close to an area having the new version aswell.

[@derpherbert3199]

The building at 6:07 is in the style of Hundertwasser, a famous artist who died in 2000. there are a few buildings in this style that I know of, one being a daycare/kindergarden. I absolutely love this architecture, I wish more buildings had this amount of greenery integrated into the design philosophy. Cheers from Germany, Ian.

[@nakazaki1254]

Most apartment complex have those underground trashcans especially in bigger cities, you will still see above ground trashcans in smaller cities/outskirts of bigger cities but they are all getting replaced by underground overtime.

[@saad-t7k]

not only apartments, in PRague we have these things along bus stops, or in the city center, where is not much room for classic containers.

[@Joey-ct8bm]

This was a video from my country the Netherlands, not Denmark. I can see the yellow license plates and place Groningen on the side. Lots of countries have them here indeed. Got 4 in front of my apartment. Even got a special card to be able to open them. We also have them for glass and clothing. Those are without a card. I always know when they collect, because you hear glass shatter. With the card they can see when as trashcan is full by how many times they got used. It's a smart city system. We also got bike and foot traffic lights with rain censors. When it rains foot and bike traffic go first. Near the place Eindhoven you got one piece of highway where you've not streetlight, but the road paint gives light. It's a kind of breaklight idea. Just a small piece of road though. Infrastructure is probably the best of the world in my country. We also have houses on water that go with the tide. Bike lanes everywhere. You can do my whole country on a bike. It's pretty nice.

[@esaedvik]

Dutch and Belgian festivals are something else. Anything electronic is pretty nuts. State of Trance, Awakenings, Defqon 1, Intents, Dominator, Decibel, Qlimax, Mysteryland...EDC in the US is pretty crazy too, in a different way.

[@Joey-ct8bm]

You forget the biggest one Tommorowland. Been to half of your list, but also Extrema, Latin Village, Solar, Dirty Dutch and Amsterdam Dance Event. Most crazy stages are Tommorowland and Defqon. Loved the old Solar weekend. Definitely my favorite festival. The first three when it wasn't as popular were the best. Jazzy jeff was there once. All kinds of music there. Hidden stages everywhere. Now they got security on the campsite. Sziget in Hungary is also awesome. Love Parade Germany, but sadly isn't anymore.

[@wisecat.]

Here in the Netherlands it is very common to hold trash in under ground containers. They are used in residential areas where residents can put their garbage bag in. Usually the bins cannot be used by everybody, you'll need an accescard to open them

[@saraha9937]

We also have them in France, installed by the city so it is public containers. In my town, they put them in the old center for example (but not only), with narrower streets. It is esthetically better and it takes less space on the streets. It is also usually cleaner than the old type of containers. You see them more and more as they renovate public spaces or build new residences.

[@Justforvisit]

12:30 Holy Smokes! Ian now has mastered the Art of Time Travel! 😱

[@emileriksson76]

I really enjoyed the format of this video! Please do more. Cheers from Sweden

[@Diveyl]

The longest village in Poland is called Zawoja. 18 km long and a bit over 100km² of area. In Podhale region, near border with Slovakia. Villages with one long street with houses along it and fields behind them is a basic historical setup. The reason behind this is allocation of land. When new settlements were founded the landlord would partition a land into strips and lend them to men so they would build a house and work the land. Each man would receive the same amount, usually, but they could pay (invest) for additional land, or be valuable enough to the landlord to be given more. People of station, like village chief or elder would also have more, often 5 or 10 times the regular amount. This particular village in the picture didn't changed much for centuries, just the houses get modernized or build anew and it got longer. The fields look typically for polish countryside. Long strips of fields with different plants, a pieces of land inherited for centuries within family. Some of those houses can be over 200 years old, most of them probably are over 100 years old, predating Second Polish Republic.

[@HrLBolle]

5:53 Btw. Butchers in industrial slaughterhouses also wear chainmail, in some places full body suits of mail as in leg (particular thighs) guards, a mail Tunic (Hauberk with gloves) and sometimes a mail coif, depends on their station

[@Jeni10]

Ian, you misunderstood it. It’s a haystack for feeding the animals, but if it gets wet, it goes mouldy, so the thatching makes sure the rain water drains away, exactly the same principle as a thatched roof on a house. The thatching strands are hollow like straws, and act as drainage for rain water. With the whole thing being elevated, the wet ground doesn’t impact the hay either. Look on KZbin for thatchers making a roof! You’ll be fascinated!

[@elendilo]

single road villages are very common in valleys in central europe - simple pattern: house facing and connected to the main road (with drainage), and a strip of land to work behind the house for veggies/potatoes or some grains for livestock.

[@TitelSinistrel]

That style of trashcans is making its way to a lot of larger cities. Saw them in Slovenia also. It is quite an ingenious solution, making then take in more trash from the street and needing less drive bys from the trash trucks. Long mainstreet only villages are quite common in eastern Europe. I guess it's because the main national road is being kept, and the don't need their own mayor and stuff to maintain side streets.

[@MickeyStartraveller]

I think I saw that in Lisbon

[@zefyrisd69]

yeah, that type of trashcan can be found in Netherlands, Denmark, France, Portugal, Czech Republic, Norway and Slovenia at the very least. Probably many more have it. They started to appear a while ago and are becoming more and more common, especially for larger appartement complexes.

[@lillisaranpaa7471]

@@zefyrisd69 I have seen the round ones in Finland

[@stephanweinberger]

@13:00 this type of village structure was quite common, when farmers settled along a road with their respective fields extending out from the backs of the houses. This formed an enclosed space in the middle, which is sometimes still recognizable to this day. The long & narrow fields also had the advantage that they could be ploughed more easily, as the farmer would have to turn the plough around less often. Often the "village greens" or "commons" in the middle were also the nucleus for a town or market square as the villages grew, which explains the oblong shape of these squares in many old towns.

[@TomikoPL]

The village in the picture is Sułoszowa. It is located not far away from Kraków, north of it. Since I spent 12 years in Denmark, I love Danish coins. 1,2 and 5 kroner (crowns) have holes. They could be stacked on a rod at the cash-desk in the banks, post offices etc., so it was easier to hold them in place. Norwegian crowns also have holes. Greetings from Poland!

[@biljancanin]

In free climbing, there are no ropes. 1 wring move, and it is probably your last wrong move.

[@aphextwin5712]

You’re close but mixed up “free climbing” and “free solo”. With the former, ropes and hooks are only used as a safety net, not to advance upwards. With the latter there are no ropes. Adam Ondra only ‘free climbed’ El Capitan (and not the full face). It was Alex Honnold who free soloed El Capital, depicted in the documentary “Free Solo”. The photo shown was edited to almost completely hide the rope that Adam was secured with (see eg the article on emontana on adam ondra dawn wall free climb).

[@MartinSGill]

@10:00 that's not Denmark, but the Netherlands. It says "Groningen" on the truck. Residents get a smart card that can use to open the top bit and they put their bin bags in. You find these about every couple of junctions in many cities. They are monitored and the trucks only come around when they are full. No keeping bin bags around for "bin day" and the trucks only need to make the journeys that are actually necessary.

[@ThSkBj]

In Norway, we're also seeing the introduction of underground suction tunnel systems for garbage in some cities. So there is no need for trucks to come empty individual garbage bins. It is all transported through a vacuum system to a garbage sorting facility in a less crowded area. The garbage is sorted by color. We get color coded waste sorting bags for free at any grocery store; purple for plastics, green for compostables, etc and the system can scan and sort the garbage bags directly. From there it is taken away by larger container trucks. No need for garbage trucks to enter the city center.

[@klarasee806]

11:51 Tomorrowland 😍

[@kriskarpjee9657]

The trash can is in the Netherlands See also one video in not only bikes

[@braindump1446]

in Not Just Bikes

[@jodocusonbenul]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZnvXoIaXm82pgq8

[@1968tttt]

Danish coins are designed with the ease of use for easy use for people who has eye problems so ½ krone (50 øre) is very thin, 1,2,5 kroner all has holes in them but they get bigger, an 10 and 20 kroner is much thicker and the 20 is more or less of the 5 kroner without a hole, and the same goes for the 10 and the2 kroner

[@verbalDK1]

I miss those little 5 øre coins... they were so cute and still in use when I arrived in Denmark in 1993. At this time, the smallest coins in Denmark, as the 1 øre coins had already been discontinued long before.

[@Laluan]

9:32 How can one mistaken that with Denmark.. It’s so clearly The Netherlands 😂

[@crunchyscorpio9186]

The Waldspirale was designed by a famous architect and designer Friedensreich Hundertwasser. His designs are very recognizable. His designs are found in Germany, Austria and for some reason, Japan. Hundertwasser was famous for hating the concept of the straight line. All his buildings have a rather playful character. Oh and those watches... yeah that is a whole profession and some of the best are in Switzerland. They even have a Unesco heritage thing. There are some good German watchmakers as well, A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte, Junghans and many more. Watchmaking has a long history in this region (you know the big clocks in the Church towers came first ) and I think the first known pocket watch was made in Nürnberg in 15something (documentation is a bit hard to come by and translate).

[@maena81]

@ 9:47 That's not a Danish trashcan, they may have the same system over there, but this is the Netherlands. It says "dankzij GTL" on the side of the truck which means "thanks to GTL". Also, this system is super common in Dutch cities. It's mainly used for collecting house trash from people that live in that area.

[@sedeslav]

14:56 People used to carry coins strung on a thin rope. There was no wallet! :) it was also easier for merchants who strung coins on sticks sorted by value and easier to count.

[@kristianbjerkheim6646]

In Norway we also have coins with a hole. I have heard that one reason for that, is that you can feel with your fingers which coin it is, and that can be helpful for people with bad eyesight. It's smart if two of different value is very similar in size. For the same reason, the coins can have rugged/no rugged edges, thickness, and sizes of course.

[@MichaEl-rh1kv]

15:00 I've still some older (pre-Euro) Spanish coins with such holes. You could string them up (to group smaller denominations into an higher value or to simply transport them).

[@SiqueScarface]

13:00 Those types of settlements are called "street villages", and they are pretty common in Eastern Germany, Czechia and Poland. They are often several miles long, but only two houses wide. You can see the stripes on the fields - each stripe belongs to one of the houses down there. (The eastern part of Langburkersdorf would be an example for Germany. The western part is already turning into a suburb of the nearby town of Neustadt, losing its street village structure. Niederottendorf, close by, would also be an example.)

[@KrisThroughGlass]

I live 30 minutes from Darmstadt. This building is really fascinating. The idea for it was my the artist Hundertwasser. I guess living in it isn't that great because you didn't have straight walls for your furniture. But I love that it's so different.

[@gbormann71]

Coins with holes, regular polygonal coins and platelet coins used to be more common, not only in Europe. I would not be surprised if even nickles or dimes had holes in them at some point as indeed it makes it easy to string them together rather than just bag them (with the risk of spilling them if it ripped).

[@Kuba_Ski]

Photos of this small town located in Poland, is Sułoszowa 👍😁

[@MrsStrawhatberry]

As a Swiss I think it’s the craftsmanship, expertise and quality control. We do have over 100 watch manufacturers like Swatch, Rado, Glashütte, Omega, Longines, Tissot, Richemon, Cartier, Jaeger-LeCoultre, A. Lange & Söhne, IWC, Vacheron Constantin, Panerai, Breitling, Hublot, TAG Heuer, Zenith, Pathek Philippe and Rolex of course.

[@Jeni10]

The fields being different colours is not weird at all. Some plots have crops while others are fallow. “Fallow is a farming technique in which arable land is left without sowing for one or more vegetative cycles. The goal of fallowing is to allow the land to recover and store organic matter while retaining moisture and disrupting pest life cycles and soil borne pathogens by temporarily removing their hosts.” It ensures annual crops and harvests, with revitalised lands always ready to sow into the future. I’ve spent my life in Sydney but we learned about these things in school as part of Social Studies.

[@ane-louisestampe7939]

Dane here! We've got underground trash "reservoirs", but the ones I've seen being emptied are 5 meter long bags that are pulled out of the ground. Like a huge old fashion coffee filter bag.

[@skodass1]

10:45 While this might be in Netherlands we have the same systems built in Denmark, usually in apartment complexes. But its kinda neat, and since we do some trash sorting here in Denmark before it can get collected (usually ones for organic, paper/cardboard, metal, textile etc) its often a procession of trucks that comes to collect instead of just one.

[@DannyDierickx]

14:55 in Belgium as well, we used to have coins in different forms : round, 4/6/8-sided, with/without holes in the center, ... i'd imagine other countries would also have these distinguishes in coins, just for easier counting/recognition, because you have to remember that "in the olden times" a lot of people could not read, size size/form/hole would be easier for them to understand

[@ReyesKrK]

A town in Poland with one street is called Sułoszowa. It is located in southern Poland close to Krakow

[@uncle_matula]

At 12:50 the village type is also typical in Hungary. If you look at it, every house has a narrow plot of land, which at that time was cultivated by everyone. Nowadays that is not typical anymore. It's mainly in the valleys that you see in the picture

[@twinmama42]

You can (or rather could in the past) find them in Germany too. The village I live in started at a crossroads of two long-distance roads (one for sure, but maybe both, from Roman times). And the villages along these roads used to be the same type. But since coordinated village development started some 60-70 years ago they added streets parallel to the main street and connecting streets (from pre-existing dirt lanes for agriculture).

[@gertstuve3933]

Thats right. In the Netherlands we have underground containers for cans, bottles, etc which are emptied this way. Very efficient!

[@knupelhodler4402]

You have a really nice job. You see an incredible amount, learn a lot, are interested and let us share in it. I would like to thank you very much for finding these great videos and pictures. Even for me as a German, I often see things that are still new territory for me (via German contributions). Thanks again and have a nice weekend.

[@SkinnyObelix]

Tommorowland is the festival that has the crazy stages, it's worth to go through the history of those stages.

[@anacfurtado1]

We have similar recycling stations in Portugal too.

[@gsbeak]

We have them to in my French town but they are round and come by 4 : one for domestic trash, one for all sort of packaging, one for glass and the last one for paper. They are very big underground so the collecting truck comes only once a week. Therefore it is much cheaper than to collect individual trash containers at each house. Next year we will have one more for organic trash which will be used to produce methane and compost.

[@ricmatify687]

Coins with holes in them were more common centuries before when they were stacked on sticks or strings. That was the purpose of the holes, so you could easily stack them up and keep certain values in each stack.

[@raderadumilo7899]

That scenic area (10:54 - 11:41) where the statue of Decebal is: that's the gorge of the river Danube. The same one that starts at Schwarzwald mountain, runs through Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, and goes between Romania and Bulgaria all the way to Ukraine and the Black Sea. There the Danube is a border between Romania and Serbia. After building of the dam, it is the place where the Danube is over 100 meters deep.

[@Nat_BLSK]

Chain mail’s also used by people who dive with sharks, but one that’s usable in water.

[@KarczekWieprzowy]

>Watch American youtuber >He says it's friday >It's Saturday >mfw

[@automation7295]

It's possible he recorded it on Friday and didn't upload it Saturday.