Dubious Islands

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• SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  TIL Florida was circumcised

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• LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Uh… is there a waterway that crosses the Rocky Mountains this way? That doesn’t seem right.

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  • SkyeLight@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Explain xkcd #2838.

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  • Zoomboingding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Similar: Minnesota has a tri-point where water flows to the Atlantic (via Lake Superior), Gulf of Mexico (via Mississippi River) or up to the Hudson Bay (via the Boundary Waters)

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  • Quill7513@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    none of these are true. that’s kind of the joke. it’s an oddly specific hydrology/geology joke

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    • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I mean making shit up isn’t a joke though. I feel like the humor needs to be based on something real.

      Most of the other “islands” are formed by man made canals, so I’m curious what the situation in the Rockies is that allows them to argue those rivers connect.

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  • pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    There’s a Half as Interesting video about this topic:

    The Only River That Flows Into Both the Atlantic and the Pacific

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• Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This is missing the island of southern Ontario made by the trent-severn waterway Image

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• goatbeard@beehaw.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Where’s the Colorado?

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• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The former Czech president lobbied for using our geographic position to link the Elbe, Odra and Donau rivers with canals. It would be very expensive but really useful in the 1800s.

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• dan69@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I knew it! It’s actually called MidEast not MidWest!

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