Brit Reacts to 50 US Geography Facts That Seem Fake (But Are 100% Real)

[@BlackOut0321]

Number 47, That video of a little pond is not Crater Lake.

[@kenf3539]

That little pond is "Little Crater Lake", and was formed by an artesian spring. It is 100 ft/30m wide and is only 45ft/14m deep. It is not in a crater, and was only named after Crater Lake. Crater Lake is in the collapsed caldera of Mt. Mazama. It is a national park and is 6mi/9.7km wide, and is 1,949 ft/594m deep. They are a seven hour drive apart.

[@R777-RLM]

These channels don't pre-watch the videos AI makes for them. I saw one about waterspouts (water born tornadoes) showing water in a sewer pipe.

[@atvalleau]

Absolutely NOT Crater Lake. Crater Lake is much larger, and has an prominent island in it.

[@chrisjarvis2287]

That spit puddle was not Crater Lake lol

[@xbubblehead]

It must be hard to find a picture of the actual Crater Lake.

[@CFWhitman]

It's what happens when you let AI do your footage search for you.

[@jeffreymontgomery7516]

@@xbubblehead - so difficult... so, so difficult... Oh... upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/Crater_Lake_winter_pano2.jpg oops... :D

[@jaredray7034]

Yeah, I noticed that too. I was thinking, “I remember it being bigger than this.“Lol

[@debbylou5729]

@@xbubbleheadit’s not hard to find…it’s famous

[@jdanon203]

The B-roll on this video is wild. That's not even remotely what Crater Lake looks like lol

[@RogCBrand]

The problem is there are a lot of "crater" lakes, and the A.I. isn't aware enough to pick the right one!

[@aljole683]

Seriously…that was pitiful. These AI scripted videos are disgusting.

[@darcyjorgensen5808]

47: That was NOT Crater Lake. Crater Lake is big and scarily awesome.

[@JHitchi]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@curtiss22]

Exactly! That is some hot spring in Yosemite or Oregon or ?? NOT CRATER LAKE!

[@kenf3539]

That little pond is "Little Crater Lake", and was formed by an artesian spring. It is 100 ft/30m wide and is only 45ft/14m deep. It is not in a crater, and was only named after Crater Lake. Crater Lake is in the collapsed caldera of Mt. Mazama. It is a national park and is 6mi/9.7km wide, and is 1,949 ft/594m deep. They are a seven hour drive apart.

[@garyi.1360]

What the heck was that for Crater Lake?! Every video in the world has amazing photos of Crater Lake and this guy shows a rain puddle.

[@debbylou5729]

It’s so stunning it was mentioned in Forrest Gump

[@mikehammond4323]

yellowstone has a major eruption about every 700,000 years; but volcanos are not like Old Faithful; it could go at any time or never again.

[@totalEPICness88]

Yeah, best way to put it is Yellowstone could go off months from now or 100,000 years from now. However, Yellowstones magma chamber melt ratio is less than 28%, making it currently incapable of an eruption, but obviously that could change.

[@meaders2002]

You're right about Montpelier, Vermont being a sad place. No one there has ever had a happy meal.

[@stevenj2380]

I know you and J have seen National Parks videos, or such, with a photo of actual (huge, dramatic) Crater Lake!

[@BlackSmokeDMax]

Depending on which scientist you ask, the Yellowstone supervolcano is WAY PAST due to erupt. Others say almost exactly the opposite, lol.

[@bethanyhanna9464]

I think the recent safety closures of the park would suggest team "way past" is winning. 😂

[@toddhadley9002]

#47: Last time I was at Crater Lake, it looked a lot bigger than that. It must have dried up. And relocated. #39: I must be more out of shape than I thought. Apparently a person walks at an average of 30 miles per hour. I barely average a tenth of that.

[@Old-dude53]

I grew up near Webster, Massachusetts. I was told Lake chargogagogmanchaggagoghaubunagungmaugg means ,”you fish on your side, I’ll fish on my side and nobody will fish in the middle.”

[@briantalley8415]

"Walk-in closets...loads of cow space..." That made me laugh out loud. :D Yeah, we have a lot of open land and cows do take up a fair bit of it. So do walk-in closets, come to think of it.

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

How stupid

[@jackbarnhill9354]

When I was in the army, I drove from the East Coast to Los Angeles. It took me one day to get to Shreveport, Louisiana, which is right near the Texas border. It took me another day to drive across Texas. I only made it as far as Pecos. I didn’t spend the final day driving to Los Angeles. Of course this is a sight quicker than how long it took the wagon trains to get to the West Coast.

[@goldfieldgary]

Living as I do in Nevada (which the narrator mispronounced), I occasionally cast a wary eye northward so as not to be caught unawares when Jellystone blows up.

[@EricWoodyVariety59]

That was not Crator lake National Park. That little pond they showed for Crator lake was probably a small water body within the Park.

[@bobcompton5145]

Volcanoes are unpredictable and they can go off without any kind of warnings, but rumbling near the valcanoes are a good warning

[@claregale9011]

Believe it or not the uk does have volcanoes , but they are extinct .

[@robrussell8870]

Yellowstone’s Super Volcano I don’t think anyone truly knows I definitely don’t think it’s dormant like they stated in the video. It’s definitely active since it’s been said that the ground is rising but considering Earth’s time table it could be thousands of years away.

[@Highlander_UDX498]

Walk-in closets…loads of cow space…too funny!!

[@darcyjorgensen5808]

Yes, in Hawaii you can go skiing. Californian here, we have always vacationed in Hawaii…the five-hour plane trip was just normal. We always used to go there for Thanksgiving: leave San Francisco in the morning, get there mid-day and then go out to dinner.

[@runrafarunthebestintheworld]

It crazy that there is a small part of Hawaii that can get snow. It looks mountainous too.

[@jpack85]

I visited that park in Portland last year. That's NOT Crater Lake.

[@elderblackdragon]

According to geological records the Yellowstone Super Volcano has had a major eruption once every 200,000 to 300,000 years. It is currently somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000 years behind schedule.

[@jamesjones8482]

I heard the man say "sheeps". Plural of sheep, is sheep. 👍

[@ambercimburek6872]

I live in Yankton, SD and right next to the Missouri river. We have a bridge here that use to separate to let ships through. Right now we use it as a walking bridge from our town to Nebraska. We built a new one just a few feet away for cars

[@JoshColletta]

Just to clarify: we in Michigan didn't **try to** claim Toledo, it **was** a part of Michigan prior to the compromise. The area is known as the Toledo Strip, and if you look at it on the map, from Ohio's border with Indiana all the way to Lake Erie, you can see where the north-south roads have to shift alignment because **we** built the roads north of the original border. Those roads are on the Michigan grid, not the Ohio grid. Long story, but basically, Michigan and Ohio were BOTH using maps that were known to be outdated, and the border definition for the Michigan Territory (prior to statehood) stated that Michigan's southern border was to be a straight line from the southern tip of Lake Michigan to the western tip of Lake Erie. That line shifts significantly depending on which map you looked at. Meanwhile, Ohio's **statehood** definition of its northern border was different, having been enacted **after** the Michigan Territory's boundaries had been defined. So legally speaking, both governments had legitimate claim to the Toledo Strip on the federal law books. Both states also wanted Toledo for its shipping port, and we very nearly went to war against each other for it. That period is referred to as "The Toledo War," because even though there weren't any official battles, armies **were** called up and sent to occupy the area. Coincidentally, it was President Andrew Jackson who brokered the agreement to settle the dispute, and as a result, several Michigan counties are named after him and members of his presidential cabinet, which we call collectively the "cabinet counties." We also have a city named after our governor at the time, Stevens T. Mason, and the city of Mason's founder had hoped to make it the new state capitol, but Lansing was chosen instead. On the other side of the state line, Toledo, which was originally part of Monroe County in Michigan, is now a part of Lucas County in Ohio, named for their state's governor at the time of these events. Honestly, though, we got the better part of the deal. Not to knock Toledo, it's a great city, but after Michigan was given the Upper Peninsula, we discovered iron ore there, which led to a MASSIVE mining boom, and which is why many miners immigrated here from Cornwall... bringing their delicious Cornish pasties with them! Plus, the nature of the Upper Peninsula is nothing short of stunningly beautiful. It's a rather fascinating story, and easily my favorite bit of Michigan history, seeing as I live in one of the counties that lost territory because of it (Hillsdale). In fact, if you look at our county map with the townships overlaid, you'll see that Amboy Township in the southern-central part of Hillsdale County is an east-west rectangle instead of the roughly square shape of most other townships, while Camden and Wright Townships on either side of it are abnormally north-south rectangles. That's because there were historically four other townships on the south side of the county until the compromise. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo_War

[@gogg111]

militias met, shots were fired and we still hate you northerners lol

[@erictaylor5462]

The last Yellowstone eruption left 6 feet of ash in eastern Nebraska, 1000 miles away. Several inches of ash has been found on Long Island. If such an eruption happened today, Even England would see ash fall, maybe. Certainly everyone in the Midwest and North Eastern US would have to evacuate.

[@claregale9011]

The last volcanic eruption in the uk was 55 million yrs ago . The only extinct volcanoe I can think of is in Edinburgh called Arthur's seat .

[@woodspirit98]

Even extinct volcanoes can suddenly erupt without warning.

[@Jamessmith-xk3fh]

I live in Louisiana and have been across that bridge

[@randallshuck2976]

I have heard that Polar Bears are the only bears that actively hunt humans for food. Grizzley's will kill a human but they don't specifically hunt them to eat.

[@kristend344]

The yellowstone hotspot - which is on the North American Plate - can be traced all the way back to the Pacific Ocean.

[@sandylee9564]

I had no idea that there was a piece of Britain here in the US....mmmm, interesting.

[@HilshireTenou]

On fact 2, Jay Foreman from the Mapmen channel did mention on why that particular London bridge was relocate to Arizona. It's also where the expression "I bought the wrong bridge" comes from.

[@danperry3116]

That tree lined frog pond was NOT crater lake.

[@TrueThanny]

03:37 That image is not Crater Lake. Go look up a real picture. It's much more impressive. It's also an impressively still lake, which provides a near-perfect mirror surface. Worth visiting in person if you can manage it. When I went in May of 2011, there was still six feet of snow on the ground, which made it a bit challenging to actually see, since I had to climb up from the parking lot.

[@edschultheis9537]

That was NOT Crater Lake. Google Crater Lake Oregon." It is VERY impressive. It is perhaps the most beautiful blue lake on the planet. It is in the middle of a huge volcano crater, surrounded by pine trees, and it has an island in the center of the lake.

[@maxinefreeman8858]

America looks smaller on the map. Maybe that's why tourists think it's a smaller country. Some have got into danger because they don't realize that a park they're in might be bigger, so be careful about hiking.

[@cliffcannon]

About Yellowstone - Geologists can tell by measuring how fast sound waves (from distant earthquakes) pass through the rocks deep underground that the magma chambers underneath Yellowstone are not liquid enough to erupt any time soon ... next eruption probably tens of thousands of years in the future. And we would not have "months" of advance warning before the next eruption, but many centuries or even millennia.

[@jimcathcart5116]

The last major event was predicted for months before and evacuated all but 1 old man who went up with volcano it was Mt Saint Helens

[@kristend344]

Texas is bigger than France. I don't know why it gave the distance between El Paso and Houston. The distance from Texarkana TX to El Paso TX is greater than the distance between El Paso and LA.

[@T.Gorrell]

Excellent video, M! I love watching videos with you.

[@saino2001]

32:38 - That flag shown representing the state of Washington is NOT the Washington state flag. It's the flag of Washington, D.C. That's an entirely different entity on the other side of the nation!

[@kathleenwebb6301]

COWS! Steaks, BBQ & burgers!

[@Questionsicantanswer]

“It must be very sad there” 😂😂😂😂

[@runrafarunthebestintheworld]

They never get a happy meal. 😅

[@michelebrowne418]

Wow! Don’t screw with Crater Lake! You’ll get a HUGE reaction. 😂

[@oxigenarian9763]

Waterways: Idaho has an actual seaport, Lewiston, served by the Snake and Clearwater rivers and is 456 miles EAST of the west coast. Sequioa National Park: The trees there are watered from the top down as the soil below rarely gets enough water to keep them alive. The trees get their water from the fog that frequently envelops them.

[@kristend344]

As other's have said - that puddle @ 3:40 isn't crater lake. THIS is crater lake - kzbin.info/www/bejne/f2aUgGuZlMiDrpI . . . .

[@donaldpicard7752]

Montpellier is a wonderful city of 8000 people , i would luve to live there. lots og family owned cafes and restaurants.

[@JulieAlberda]

Wow, that last fact of the deepest canyon really surprised me! I live in Washington state and had no idea! It's a great excuse for a new roadtrip. 😮

[@debbylou5729]

I had a friend when I lived in Montana….thats it. I’m amazed, as well. No, really ..he had to travel through Texas. He was not happily impressed. He said it was just too much to bear. As he put it, ‘i’d get in my car and be able to see where i was spending the night 10 hours later’.

[@ramman5784]

Thank goodness for the cows. I love them on the grill

[@azzurroVerdi]

The picture of the Bristle Cone pine is a Redwood...WOW

[@erictaylor5462]

I worked in one of the hotels in Yellowstone. I was the guy who showed up if you had a problem with your room, say the toilet being plugged up. I met a man and his son and the kid, who was around 10 told me, very excited that the next day his dad was going to take him to see the volcano. I told them they could see the volcano out the hotel window. Both dad and the kid were excited by this. They both went to the window, begging me to point it out to them. Only there is no cone shaped mountain to be seen. Nevertheless, you can't *NOT* see the volcano looking out the window. After working them up a bit, I asked if they had the map the NPS hands out. I showed them the red line that encircles nearly the entire park, that shows the edge of the caldera. then pointed to our location. They could not *NOT* see the volcano out the window because the hotel and most of the park was inside the volcano.

[@elderblackdragon]

We STILL use the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers to transport goods.

[@Steve-hq4fm]

I wonder why Norway has polar bears, but Sweden and Finland don't!

[@GH-oi2jf]

That is obvious, if you look at a map. Finland and Sweden do not border the northern seas.

[@jpack85]

Interestingly enough, Okracoke Island, NC is also where the High Tide accent is spoken, and it's often mistaken for some rural British accents. The folks there were isolated for centuries and didn't have the waves of immigrant influence that the rest of the country had..

[@Adiscretefirm]

Jacksonville FL is huge in area but the Palm Beach/Broward/Miami-Dade 3 county Concrete Coast is why Florida is so populated

[@TrueThanny]

15:05 That is not a bristlecone pine. They look like gnarly little bushes. That image is a sequoia, like the Sherman tree.

[@manxkin]

Talks about Crater Lake, shows a tiny pond! That was definitely not Crater Lake! The General Sherman Sequoia is awesome. That was not a Bristle Cone Pine (in my opinion).

[@ambercimburek6872]

In south dakota our capital is Pierre but at one point it was Yankton where I live.

[@briankgarland]

What a stupid video. They talked about Crater Lake but never showed it, just some random small ponds.

[@skipbellon2755]

The super volcano that is Yellowstone Park is a couple hundred thousand years overdue for eruption

[@goldfieldgary]

Another "surveyor error" fact besides the Oklahoma/New Mexico one described here: the reason the southern border of Arizona on the eastern side proceeds due west for a ways, then cuts west-northwest to its endpoint at the Colorado River, is due to one Army Lt. Whipple who was charged with the survey of the border. He thought desert land was worthless so he disregarded his orders to survey the line due west. Had he followed orders the southern border would have intersected the waters of the Gulf of California, intead of the Colorado River. That could have caused the US to claim all of what is now Baja California in Mexico. I'm actually glad it worked out the way it did, because Baja California has some gorgeous and exotic desert in it which the US Californians probably would have paved over!

[@Kyle-q5v]

I havw walked across the London bridge in Lake Havasu in Arizona. My brother has a house there. It's only about a 3.5 hour driv from Yuma where I live

[@xbubblehead]

Some like it hot. I had lunch at the London Bridge one day and was happy to get home to Tucson to cool off.

[@stevenj2380]

Good observation re: LA Country. NYC may be close in population (somewhat less I think) but it is 5 counties! Still, as NYer it is remarkable as I've said before, NY was briefly first Capital of the U.S. but it was never the Capital of NY State.

[@LoloD1833]

Fact #45,That is why we don’t have a popular vote !

[@runrafarunthebestintheworld]

2:29 the smallest park ever known to man. Great stuff. 😅😅

[@claytonecramer]

Yes, not Crater Lake.

[@donaldhester6555]

yellowstone is overdue for an erruption by some estimates

[@debbylou5729]

Look at the wording describing Hyperion. It’s that many feet OVER anything around it, not its actual height

[@michaelwademan]

Hello from Scranton Pennsylvania USA

[@michaelwademan]

And we also have a road named Washington Ave

[@sammymartin7891]

the pictures they show when talking about Crater Lake ARE Not Crater Lake.

[@johnsanford3596]

Nevada became a state in 1863. Arizona was a TERRITORY until 1902 when it became a state. Yes, the folks in the Arizona Territory argued to keep Pah-Ute County for themselves, they lost.

[@xbubblehead]

Arizona became a state in 1912.

[@thekope408]

This was good. Colorado checking in.

[@jeffreymontgomery7516]

I'm surprised there was no note of the myriad of locations that were BELOW sea level in the United Stats... such as New Orleans.... Death Valley...

[@MichaelScheele]

@26:32, Canada is known as the Great White North, not Alaska.

[@grandpaallie1553]

To be fair, lake “blahblah-ba-chggggggggg-blablah” (in Massachusetts) is just a case of New Englanders tryna keep pace with Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 only we …a’hem… “went Mental” with the letter ‘G’ instead of the letter ‘L’ 🤷🏻‍♂️🙄🤦🏻‍♂️😬😏😂

[@runrafarunthebestintheworld]

Yeah it looks like something long you can type on a computer. 😅😅

[@JoannDavi]

Solo videos like this one will make you leap over James in US knowledge.

[@charlesyeargan]

The Red River separates Texas & Oklahoma

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Colorado has the highest sand dunes in the US

[@jimgreen5788]

Millie, he absolutely butchered #1, which is correctly: (Lake) Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg = char-gog-uh-gog-man-chow-gah-gog-chow-bun-uh-GUNG-guh-mawg. His claim that the little puddle at 3:40 is Crater Lake is sooooo untrue, and he still didn't get it right on the 2nd. try at 4:09. I'm sure there's an accurate one on Wikipedia. Re. the subject of the southern triangle of Canada east of Detroit, the southernmost point of Canada is farther south than all or part of 27 US states, which was discussed in Fact 42. Like I believe he mentioned re. Yellowstone, the chances of it erupting in the foreseeable future are slim to none. Re. Hawaii, he pronounced the high mountain (Haleakala) ha-lay-ah-kah-LA, when it should be ha-lay-AH-kah-lah. There are so many KZbin narrators (and regular people as well) these days who call the lines between states "borders". However, borders separate us from Canada and Mexico. The lines separating states are correctly called state lines. After all, there's no border patrol stationed at the line between CA and AZ, for example. The tree shown at 15:11, and purported to be a bristlecone pine is utter nonsense. They're low to the ground, and look dead. Check Wikipedia. Re. the Reservations, the biggest in both the US and Canada is the Navajo Res. in AZ--the soldiers in the movie "Code talkers". Besides the oops! in both MN and WA, there's Hyder, AK, which is cut off from the rest of the state by the Coast Mtns. to the west. Thus, a flight, or 441mi./710km. drive through Canada is necessary to reach the nearest other AK town--Skagway.

[@kevingouldrup9265]

BTW How is little Archie?

[@debbylou5729]

Native Americans never lived in ‘most of the US’. even now regular Americans don’t live in all of the US.

[@brent8133]

Fact about Los Angeles county having that many people. Its a county, but its not really a "county". Its the 11th largest in the United States as far as county sizes. It spans like what other states would call like 10 counties. The facts remain the same, all I'm trying to say is LA is WIDE and spread out.

[@luxleather2616]

I'm from Yuma Arizona

[@willp.8120]

That is where Nick Papageorgio comes from.

[@michaeloliver1039]

Very fun.

[@IMCODERED]

Gulf of 'Murica! 🤣😂

[@reindeer7752]

There's no such word.

[@scottysmith9687]

Just like a woman to say walk-in closets the first thing to say😂😅

[@grumblesa10]

AFA the Yellowstone caldera, despite some hype a few years ago, the caldera is NOT going to erupt for a while. Like several thousand years. In geologic time, that's like next week , but how we interpret time - nothing concerning

[@charlesyeargan]

Hello From Texas

[@azzurroVerdi]

The photo of Crater Lake was not Crater Lake

[@redfeather1590]

Very interesting! If you guys ever visit again you should go see The London Bridge lol

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Definitely not

[@lydiacooper9260]

No one knows when Yellowstone will erupt. They do know that it is long over due do, and when it d, es it will be devastating, life changing for the world.

[@claytonecramer]

I have herd 700,000 years mentioned as time between Yellowstone eruptions. Good. It is likely to cause world famine.

[@carbonmedusa5401]

Remember Mt. St Helens?? They thought they had it under control as far as timeline, but it sped up and blew sooner than expected. So the Yellowstone caldera could blow at anytime, could send ash as far as the east coast where I am or further, and could cause nuclear winters around the world for years. Not everyone agrees and remember the expert scientists are just like meteorologist; they are guessing. Remember how often weathermen are accurate & even how close to being right or wrong they are.

[@RogCBrand]

My parents' friend was camping at Mt. St. Helens with her cousin at the time- many people didn't really think anything major would be happening. They were among those that died. It reminds me of curious people walking out when the ocean recedes, not realizing a tsunami is coming!

[@zzkeokizz]

I went to Yellowstone in 1989 when I was 15. Yellowstone didn’t blow up.

[@magnusoptimus2052]

More Alaska content! Sorry...my bias is leaking out.

[@ChuckHuffmaster]

I lived in Adak Alaska it's a little Island in the Aleutian chain when I was a kid we were so far west we were east 😂 , seriously if you look on the globe you'll see what I mean

[@GH-oi2jf]

Adak island is at about 176° longitude, so it is west of the prime meridian.

[@christopherstephenjenksbsg4944]

I live in Providence, Rhode Island, which is the largest city in the state and also the capital. However, Rhode Island is also the smallest state in the country.

[@willp.8120]

It's a nice little state, however. Has some pretty coastline and Newport. Some nice forests on the western side of the state.

[@tosweet68]

I know i saw this video posted a day or two ago

[@steveneng3026]

... and the Washington DC flag is used for the State of Washington?

[@stevenbeall9637]

Sheeps lol