Today I Learnt

Why not have a thread dedicated to learning those small, simple things that you didn’t know?

TIL that whilst we learnt there are 7 continents in our geography classes, the French, Spanish, Latin Americans and several others learnt that there are only 5; Europe, Africa, Asia, Australasia and America.

Antarctica isn’t considered a continent by them, and the Americas are only viewed as one continent.

Depending on your preferred sense of humour, there are a few good videos on that:

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I do love me a mapmen video

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A large proportion of air cadet CFAV being Map Men viewers is somehow not wholly unsurprising…

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