50 Geography Facts That Are Fake (But You Believed Them)

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• EA

  @EASYTIGER10 · 1 year ago

  I've never watched a video which tells me I need to change so many misconceptions that I never held in the first place

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• PH

  @PhilR0gers · 1 year ago

  Who in their right mind think that rivers flow north to south because north is at the top of the map?<br>That&apos;s like saying you can drive from the USA to Mexico just by letting your car roll there.

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• JE

  @JelleW2404 · 1 year ago (edited)

  South-Africa actually has 3 capitals. Pretoria and Bloemfontein, like you said. But also Capetown, its the legislative capital.

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  @Samule-HazeleLW-b2z · 2 months ago

  Australia=COUNTRY<br>Australasia or more commonly used Oceania=CONTINENT

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• AS

  @asmartbajan · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHzql2YlpF4&amp;t=461">7:41</a> Actually, Cape Town <i>is</i> also one of the capitals of South Africa!

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• RI

  @rickkwitkoski1976 · 1 year ago

  Nigeria&apos;s capital wasn&apos;t just MOVED to Abuja from Lagos.<br>Abjua was constructed SPECIFICALLY to be a new and central capital.<br>Building started in 1982.

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• GD

  @GDTBATH · 1 year ago

  <b>&quot;Africa is a continent not a country.&quot;</b> Um. &nbsp;Why is this even being mentioned? &nbsp;Seriously. 😂😂

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• JO

  @johnburnside7828 · 1 year ago

  No, Kansas City is NOT split into two cities. &nbsp;Kansas City, MO and Kansas City, KS are two separate entities and always have been.

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• MA

  @majon6176 · 1 year ago

  @<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHzql2YlpF4&amp;t=473">7:53</a> South Africa has three cities that serve as capitals: Pretoria (executive), Cape Town (legislative), and Bloemfontein (judicial)

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• RY

  @ryansmagalski948 · 1 year ago

  When you said &quot;Africa is a continent, not a country&quot; I realized this video was not intended for me 😆

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• AL

  @alffry5454 · 1 year ago

  Antarctica covers all the timezones because it straddles the South Pole, not because it’s big.

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• TH

  @themercer4972 · 1 year ago (edited)

  37, also Ottawa became the capital of Canada for much the same reason as the Australians had. &nbsp;It was a compromise between Toronto and Montreal, both cities wanting the honor back in the 1800s

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