TonyHawksPoTater@kbin.social to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoWhat's a fact that sounds totally made up, yet is completely true?message-squaremessage-square52fedilinkarrow-up176arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up169arrow-down1message-squareWhat's a fact that sounds totally made up, yet is completely true?TonyHawksPoTater@kbin.social to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year agomessage-square52fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareMoobythegoldensock@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up15·1 year agoThe northmost, eastmost, and westmost states in the US are all the same state. Middle Island, Canada is south of 26% of US states, and over half of US states are at least partially north of it.
minus-squareaname@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 year agoNorway is more east, south, west and north than Finland
minus-squareThavron@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 year agoYeah I’m gonna need to see a map. I don’t understand this.
minus-squareMoobythegoldensock@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up23·1 year agoAlaska is the north-most US state, and it goes so far west that it actually pokes into the eastern hemisphere. Here’s a map for the Canada one.
minus-squareNath@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoHa! And here’s me trying to picture how Maine can be called the West-most state!
minus-squareModern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoWhoever wrote up that canada one doesn’t understand the word “entirely”
minus-squareagamemnonymous@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoAlaska crosses the 180th Meridian, which is the “wraparound” point between east and west.
minus-squareDevi@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoI checked both of those because I was like “Surely not??”
The northmost, eastmost, and westmost states in the US are all the same state.
Middle Island, Canada is south of 26% of US states, and over half of US states are at least partially north of it.
Norway is more east, south, west and north than Finland
Yeah I’m gonna need to see a map. I don’t understand this.
Alaska is the north-most US state, and it goes so far west that it actually pokes into the eastern hemisphere.
Here’s a map for the Canada one.
Ha! And here’s me trying to picture how Maine can be called the West-most state!
Whoever wrote up that canada one doesn’t understand the word “entirely”
Alaska crosses the 180th Meridian, which is the “wraparound” point between east and west.
I checked both of those because I was like “Surely not??”