Weird Geography Facts

[hoosman]

Honey War - Wikipedia

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[Al_4_State]

Honey War - Wikipedia

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Don't tell the current Iowa legislature.

 

[cycub51]

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.

On this topic my wife from Wisconsin is convincing my kids that a water fountain is called a bubbler. They love her more than me and believe her.

In no world does the water bubble when it comes out of the spout.

 

[ackatch]

On this topic my wife from Wisconsin is convincing my kids that a water fountain is called a bubbler. They love her more than me and believe her.

In no world does the water bubble when it comes out of the spout.

Mine is from NW Wisconsin and thinks "bubbler" is weird. Apparently it's more of a Southern Wisconsin thing?

 

[Drew0311]

On this topic my wife from Wisconsin is convincing my kids that a water fountain is called a bubbler. They love her more than me and believe her.

In no world does the water bubble when it comes out of the spout.

She is wrong. We had a kid in school when I was younger from Minnesota and they played Duck Duck Gray Duck instead of Duck Duck Goose. Apparently that is how they play it in Minnesota

 

[AltoonaFish]

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.

Nerd.

 

[Letterkenny]

72% of Canada's population lives below the latitude of the border of Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana and Washington.



Also, the southernmost point in Canada is about as far south as Des Moines:

 

[drmwevr08]

And dumb...

The great Dallas County annexation rush. Fun times.

 

[cyclones500]

60% of Canada's population resides below Seattle's latitude.

Edit: @Letterkenny beat me to it with a similar statistic.

 

[cycub51]

Mine is from NW Wisconsin and thinks "bubbler" is weird. Apparently it's more of a Southern Wisconsin thing?

Interesting. She’s from southern Wisconsin

 

[jcyclonee]

On this topic my wife from Wisconsin is convincing my kids that a water fountain is called a bubbler. They love her more than me and believe her.

In no world does the water bubble when it comes out of the spout.

An old girlfriend from Milwaukee used to refer to the ATM as the Time machine because that is the name of the network of ATM's they used in Wisconsin. I do think it was spelled Tyme, though.

 

[JM4CY]

An old girlfriend from Milwaukee used to refer to the ATM as the Time machine because that is the name of the network of ATM's they used in Wisconsin. I do think it was spelled Tyme, though.

 

[cycub51]

Wisconsin is definitely a state with its own unique culture

 

[Lafaester54]

Interesting. She’s from southern Wisconsin

Lived in Appleton, Menominee and Sheboygan…somewhere I started calling them “bubblers”.

 

[cyclones500]

It's only about 35 miles farther from Pensacola to Keokuk than it is from Pensacola to Key West.

 

[jcyclonee]

Wisconsin is definitely a state with its own unique culture

It's called drunk.

 

[ClubCy]

Love threads like this. This isn’t unknown or interesting but my dumb brain growing up was under the impression NYC was north of Boston and Connecticut.

Still to this day it doesn’t feel right for some reason.

 

[jbclone10]

60% of Canada's population resides below Seattle's latitude.

Edit: @Letterkenny beat me to it with a similar statistic.

I think I heard/read something about +85% of Canada's population lives <30 miles from the US boarder.

 

[SaraV]

On GaMeDaYs, MeMoRiAl StAdIuM iS tHe ThIrD lArGeSt CiTy In NeBrAsKa.

Sorry, needed to get that out of my system.

 

[simply1]

The Portland Trailblazers are the furthest north NBA team. Timberwolves second. Toronto third.