TonyHawksPoTater@kbin.social to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoWhat's a fact that sounds totally made up, yet is completely true?message-squaremessage-square45fedilinkarrow-up174arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up167arrow-down1message-squareWhat's a fact that sounds totally made up, yet is completely true?TonyHawksPoTater@kbin.social to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year agomessage-square45fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareMoobythegoldensock@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up14·1 year agoThe northmost, eastmost, and westmost states in the US are all the same state. Middle Island, Canada is south of 26% of US states, and over half of US states are at least partially north of it.
minus-squareThavron@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 year agoYeah I’m gonna need to see a map. I don’t understand this.
minus-squareMoobythegoldensock@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up23·1 year agoAlaska is the north-most US state, and it goes so far west that it actually pokes into the eastern hemisphere. Here’s a map for the Canada one.
minus-squareNath@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year agoHa! And here’s me trying to picture how Maine can be called the West-most state!
minus-squareModern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoWhoever wrote up that canada one doesn’t understand the word “entirely”
minus-squareagamemnonymous@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoAlaska crosses the 180th Meridian, which is the “wraparound” point between east and west.
minus-squareaname@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 year agoNorway is more east, south, west and north than Finland
minus-squareDevi@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoI checked both of those because I was like “Surely not??”
The northmost, eastmost, and westmost states in the US are all the same state.
Middle Island, Canada is south of 26% of US states, and over half of US states are at least partially north of it.
Yeah I’m gonna need to see a map. I don’t understand this.
Alaska is the north-most US state, and it goes so far west that it actually pokes into the eastern hemisphere.
Here’s a map for the Canada one.
Ha! And here’s me trying to picture how Maine can be called the West-most state!
Whoever wrote up that canada one doesn’t understand the word “entirely”
Alaska crosses the 180th Meridian, which is the “wraparound” point between east and west.
Norway is more east, south, west and north than Finland
I checked both of those because I was like “Surely not??”