Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
The map above shows which states have a building taller than the current height of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt (the tallest of Egypt’s pyramids at 138.5 m [454 ft]) and which ones don’t.
And in case you’re curious here’s a list of the tallest building in each US state and territory:
The map above shows one of my favourite random facts, apparently Wyoming has only 2 sets of escalators in the entire state.
As a London resident this is just wild to me, I rode at least 4 escalators just to get to work this morning via train and tube.
So the thought of there being only 2 in the entire state sort of blow my mind.
Here’s a summary why:
I personally love the map above, partly because it includes my hometown.
It shows the temperature difference between the lowest lows in winter and highest highs in summer of each country’s capital city.
Growing up I was always told that Canada had the second coldest capital city in the world after Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, but after Kazakhstan moved it’s capital to Astana from Almaty it looks Ottawa has fallen into third place.
Here are the top 5 with the biggest differences:
Here’s how they figured it out:
The Black Death, a devastating pandemic caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis.
Here’s an overview of its spread, origins, transmission, and decline:
As someone who’s had 3 of their 4 wisdom teeth vey painfully removed, they are not something I really like to think about.
However, the Spanish name of judgement tooth or molar of judgment (depending on your translation) is too good not to share.
Interesting in Catalan it’s molar of sense, in Basque it’s tooth of wisdom but in Galician we’re back to molar of judgment.
Here’s a full list of the name in various European languages with a literal translation:
The map above shows some of the funnier names for Candy Floss (aka Cotton Candy if you’re American) across Europe. And might even prove to be useful if your kids are anything like mine.
Here’s a full list by country?
The map above shows the difference pretty clearly:
Amazingly, despite dropping out, RFK Jr got the 3rd most votes in 1,684 counties because it was often too late to take his name off the ballot.
Here are the full results:.
Here’s how they came up with the list: