Weird Geography Facts

[CloneLawman]

I truly wish this were true.

Let's buy the Tico, man.

 

[cyclonedave25]

For 1 hour when the clocks fall back when daylight saving time ends, it’s the same time in the Florida Panhandle and Eastern Oregon.

 

[BoxsterCy]

Reading WWII history as a kid I always thought that Gibraltar was an island in the strait and not a big ass rock peninsula.

 

[JP4CY]

Pilot Mound has more exits than Skankeny.

 

[Cyhig]

Born and raised in MN. I had no idea everyone else used "Goose" until high school when the question appeared on Who Wants to be a Millionaire. It was one of the low dollar questions, and Gray Duck wasn't even an option. I was quite confused at the moment why Gray Duck wasn't listed as a choice!

Purple Duck, Red Duck, Yellow Duck, Green Duck, Orange Duck... Gray Duck!!!

 

[jcyclonee]

Let's buy the Tico, man.

I don't want to change a thing about that national treasure.

I had a hard time when they changed out the 40-year-old, faded drive-thru menu.

 

[ackatch]

Born and raised in MN. I had no idea everyone else used "Goose" until high school when the question appeared on Who Wants to be a Millionaire. It was one of the low dollar questions, and Gray Duck wasn't even an option. I was quite confused at the moment why Gray Duck wasn't listed as a choice!

Purple Duck, Red Duck, Yellow Duck, Green Duck, Orange Duck... Gray Duck!!!

We moved out of MN to prevent my children from being subjected to the oddity that is "Gray Duck".

This isn't 100% of the reason, but god damn is it weird.

 

[jcyclonee]

Born and raised in MN. I had no idea everyone else used "Goose" until high school when the question appeared on Who Wants to be a Millionaire. It was one of the low dollar questions, and Gray Duck wasn't even an option. I was quite confused at the moment why Gray Duck wasn't listed as a choice!

Purple Duck, Red Duck, Yellow Duck, Green Duck, Orange Duck... Gray Duck!!!

I feel like a failure as a parent that my kids listened to my wife and use gray duck.

 

[1UNI2ISU]

El Paso is closer to San Diego than it is to Houston.

 

[enisthemenace]

Africa is really big:

 

[BillBrasky4Cy]

For 1 hour when the clocks fall back when daylight saving time ends, it’s the same time in the Florida Panhandle and Eastern Oregon.

I will never understand why these areas are in the central time zone.

 

[aauummm]

How does one correctly determine the geographical center of an irregular shape like Iowa? I imagine there are different ways of doing that. Is it where the four corner points all cross on intersecting lines? Genuinely curious about that.

Here's one method:

 

[nfrine]

Iowa City is not the end of the world. But you can see it from there.

 

[2122]

And it has one of the coolest barns I've ever seen.

Took this shot at a farm auction last year. Felt kinda like being in a cathedral...

 

[Cyhig]

The western most point of South America is nearly on the same longitude as Disney World

 

[cyclones500]

I will never understand why these areas are in the central time zone.


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That is odd.

It's the same time of day in Fortuna, ND, and Pensacola, FL.

 

[KnappShack]

And if you do the absolute NE corner of the state (New Albin), it's not even close.

The one that surprised me most was home much closer Keokuk was to freaking Kentucky than it is to other parts of Iowa.

In geography and spirit

 

[CascadeClone]

Google tells me so.

But I would assume math is involved as well as maybe the stars, moon and sun as well.

You use calculus/integration, iirc. But you need a formula to determine the distance to the borders and then minimize it maybe? I think we did this once in calc, but it might have been area, idk. It was 30 years ago.

Online it suggests hanging the shape from a string, from various points on the borders, and look for where the lines converge. If you get multiple points of convergence, you average the locations. I think that would work.

 

[Drew0311]

Reno, Nevada is further West than Los Angelas, California.

 

[CascadeClone]

not a weird fact, just needed to be said