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Reincarnation Color Game Map

Last Updated: July 22, 2025 Leave a Comment

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Reincarnation Color Game Map

The map above is designed as a fun thought experiment: “If you were to randomly be born again, into one of these colored regions, which one would you choose?”

You can interpret exactly what that means yourself, but the way I think about it is that you have an equal chance of being born into each country of a given color.

For example if you picked Yellow, you might be randomly reborn in the United States or China or equally Afghanistan or Iraq.

Of course you could also look at it based on population or area.

Here’s a list of countries for each color:

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Filed Under: World Maps

Famous Cartoons From European Countries

Last Updated: July 14, 2025 4 Comments

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Famous Cartoons From European Countries

Map found on reddit, created by Romanian Maps
The map above shows some of the most famous and populaor cartoon shows in each European country. Here’s a little bit more about each of them:

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Where You Can Find Sheep In Europe

Last Updated: July 3, 2025 Leave a Comment

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Where You Can Find Sheep In Europe

Map created by the European Food Safety Authority
The map above shows where you can and can’t find sheep in Europe.

Probably one of the few maps that highlights, Wales, Northern England, the North and East of Ireland, Sardinia, and Greece.

And when the map was posted to reddit users had the following to say:

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Wheat vs Rice Consumption In India By State

Last Updated: July 3, 2025 Leave a Comment

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Wheat vs Rice In India

Created by India in Pixels
The beautiful map above shows the split in Wheat vs Rice preference in India.

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Filed Under: India

7 New Oxford Wall Maps of Australia

Last Updated: July 3, 2025 Leave a Comment

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Sheep and Wheat map of Australia

George Philip & Son

The map above is a 1920 New Oxford Map of Australia created by by geographer Thomas Griffith Taylor and Beckit, H. O showing where you can and can’t find sheep.

The categories are very helpfully divided into either no sheep or some sheep. No categories are listed for wheat.

All has a very Settlers of Catan feel to it don’t you think?

They also created the following maps in the same series:

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Filed Under: Australia

24 Hours Of Flights Between Europe and The US

Last Updated: July 3, 2025 Leave a Comment

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The video above shows 24 hours worth of flights between Europe and the US from a pre-pandemic 2018.

You can very clearly see the jet stream effects with almost all the flights to Europe following the jet stream and those to the United States either going north or south of it.

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Watch 10 Years Of Top Trending Google Searches From 2010-2020 By State In 1 Minute

Last Updated: July 3, 2025 Leave a Comment

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Video created by V1 Analytics

The video above shows the top trending search term by state for each day in the United States from January 7th, 2010 all the way to July 5th, 2020.

It’s interesting because it’s surprisingly rare for the top trending search term to be the same across all 50 states.

Here’s a sped up version:

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Filed Under: United States

Map Showing How Cereals Took Over The World

Last Updated: July 3, 2025 Leave a Comment

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Data source: Xinyi Liu; Animation by Javier Ventura/Washington University

The map above shows how four of the world’s most important domesticated cereals spread across Europe, Asia and Africa between 7,000 and 3,500 years ago.

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Filed Under: World Maps

Map Showing 100 Years of Plane Crashes In 58 Seconds

Last Updated: July 3, 2025 1 Comment

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The video above was created by reddit user donatso and shows 100 years of plane crashes.

I’ve made a sped up version of it below:

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Filed Under: Uncategorized, World Maps

13 Countries & States That Can Fit Inside Canada’s Hudson Bay

Last Updated: July 2, 2025 1 Comment

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Canada’s Hudson Bay is the world’s second largest Bay after the Bay of Bengal.

It is 1,230,000 km2 (470,000 sq mi) about the same size as South Africa or almost twice the size of Texas.

But given it’s unique shape, I wondered what countries and/or US states you could fit inside it.

So here below is a bit of a random selection of places that I found fit inside.

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