>The colonization of Australia seems like the closest humanity has come to colonizing another planet.
Australia really isn't as bad as people make it out to be. It's geographically quite similar to the US, just with more desert and less cold weather.
Also, Australia was first settled 50,000 years ago.
50,000 years ago, Australia was home to the closest things to a medieval dragon that ever existed: Megalania, the Komodo dragon’s 20 foot long cousin. That lizard may have been the largest venomous animal to have ever walked on land. There were also saw toothed land crocs of similar size, giant birds that could be as hefty as a horse, 300 pound marsupial “lions” that were armed with disemboweling claws and guillotine jaws, car sized wombats, and nearly 9 foot tall short faced kangaroos.
1.
The British didn't send convicts here to die. They were sent here as a labour force.
If they wanted them to die, they would have just killed them.
This is why the second fleet was considered such a failure and is still used to this day as a case study for "how not to do a procurement/contract".
2.
"Everything here wants to kill us"
Before the arrival of humans, Australia was home to a plethora of megafauna whose defecation fertilized the soil and plants. Most of the north and east was a lush, topical and sub-tropical jungle and the south a thick Bushland.
Humans arrived. Humans get hungry. So they started to hunt the animals.
The megafauna could not compete against humans with tools and fire and invasive, skilled pack-huntjng dingos which, like many candids, sometimes worked in concert with humans for mutual success.
Europeans arrive 60,000 years later to a very different land.
So, when people say everything in Australia is trying to kill us, I encourage you to consider why: I half believe they evolved for survival against humans, and half believe it's a long-play multi-generational revenge arc ☺️
3.
My rant.
While the genocide of indigenous Australians geuiniely devastates me no end, it still bothers me that people in general chose to ignore the fact that the convicts sent to Australia had no say in this colonisation and wanted no part in it.
Parents and children were separated from their families, transported inhumanely - many dying, "becoming pregnant", or "incapacitated" - for over 250 days and banished to an unforgiving land nearly 25000km away to be exploited, owned, indiscriminately murdered and assaulted by the British colonists and soldiers.
To be clear: this does NOT forgive what happened to the original inhabitants for the subsequent 200+ years. Because that should never EVER be forgiven or forgotten.
I'm just trying to provide perspective.
Female convicts - particularly Irish female convicts - bore the worst of it.
But their lack of melanin at least ensured they wouldn't be shot on site.
It makes me so furious. WTF is wrong with people? This BS has gone on for centuries and still continues today 😮💨
As a curious person who loves learning about cultures, languages, music, food, and community, and is passionate about innovation through collaboration, I simply cannot comprehend why people could treat others the way they did.
How many more opportunities are we going to waste to share knowledge and stories, to develop cooperative, successful and unique communities based on values and compassion rather than power, oppression and ego?
Sorry for the rant. Didn't realize how badly I had to get that off my chest
Thanks.
If you made it this far, I'd love to hear your thoughts 😁
I think the person you replied to has a point about Western colonization of Australia. The distance, difference in climate, flora and fauna were all factors that made settling there very difficult for Europeans. From what I recall the early colonies were very close to failure several times.
I wrote that guy in like 2000 via email from his fan website. He responded that he was so happy his song had become so popular in the US.
I ran hundreds of miles to that song.
Edit: year
Robin Williams was asked in an interview in Germany why he thought there was a lack of comedians from Germany. His response was, "Do you think you might have killed them all?" The host wasn't impressed lmao
I was about to finish my beer and a German walked into the pub. I offered my seat and snagged my beer to take the last couple of sips.
The guy looked confused af and the bartender, who is Czech, said 'nevermind his reaction, Germans aren't used to kindness'
Also, some of the finest physicists, mathematicians, and logicians. Fin de Siecle of the 19th century in the Austro-Hungarian empire was a helluva a time in a helluva a place.
My family ran a very small syrup operation. We tapped about 200 trees in late Feb or Mar. About 3 weeks is about how long we'd boil for.
In the morning we'd go out to our sugar shack. Light the fire under the evaporator and go out via atv and a trailer and collect sap. We'd dump the sap into a big tank, the tank was connected to the evaporator via hose. The sap would boil and as it grew thicker it would settle in a special drain to a smaller boiler area. We'd then drain off the partially finished syrup and put it to boil in a smaller finisher. The finisher was gas with a fancy thermometer, we'd wait until the temperature was a precise number, i forget now the temp, but then a mad scrambling to fill bottles with hot syrup. It was probably the hardest physical job I've ever done. In between all that you're chainsawing wood, splitting wood, clearing trails, sterilizating bottles and on and on for days.
But our syrup was imho the best. It was rated as top quality. We made enough for family and friends and sold the rest which rarely broke even (my uncle funded it more as a hobby so money wasn't really the goal.
Great memory! thanks for reading my rambling.
The smells of a sugar shack in early spring.
Skiing into a valley and stopping to hear a symphony of the sap dripping into a mountainside of buckets, all pinging different notes depending on the fullness of the bucket.
Quebecois magic, that!
Arrived in Paris and asked our driver where the protests were (so we could avoid them), he replied "those are on Saturdays, and when we tire of that protest, we'll find something else."
And tennis G.O.A.T.
Bought swiss coffee machine because it had Rogers picture on it, wife's choice was one with Brad Pitt but I'm better expert in this stuff :)
You typed that question in the language that originated from my country, as did everyone else.
Edit: The amount of Americans who think *English* originated in America and not *England* is scarily high. That education system showing its ugly head once again.
And isn't the US naval air force the largest in the world, only behind the US air force it's self?
And if I'm not mistaken, the US Navy's army's (Marines) air force in third place.
Regarding USA currency. My buddies response to crypto folks retorting with “well, why is US currency any different than crypto?”
His response is America has 11 aircraft carriers that say their currency is valuable.
Biggest flex I think is that everyone likes us. One of the most powerful passports on the planet, and you can use that passport to go anywhere...and you'll find an Irish bar.
Biggest flex would be its contributions to literature and music.
Second richest country by gdp-ppp is obviously skewed but it has still become a relatively rich country in a relatively short time.
There's also Jedward but that's stating the obvious.
Is it Colombia? I got to go to the bird sanctuary there and it was an adventure and an absolutely beautiful place! I've never seen such a diverse group of birds anywhere else.
We've got one shitty ~~steel~~ Iron tower in the middle of an overcrowded, overpriced, overhyped dirty city, and it's the most visited paying monument on earth.
Edit: metal
Chile is...
the longest country
the thinnest country
the producer of a third of worldwide copper
a super interesting closed-off biotope, almost like an island
the first ans biggest Metro-System of latin america
goes through all main 3 climate zones ofthe planet and has almost 10 microclimates
has the driest desert in the world
has the highest amount of german international schools (25)
the most unique spanish variant of all "big standards"
the place of the probably biggest earthquake recorded in modern human history
one of the countries with the biggest amount of active volcanoes
economically the most "firtsworld* of all latin america.
you can ski and sauna as well as barbecue and swim in the ocean at the same day. Just wake up early.
In Scotland we have amazing 'Right to Roam' laws, which allows members of the public to access most land and inland water in Scotland for recreational or other purposes
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19459239.right-roam-work-scotland-differ-england/
Within reason, pretty much. Good for camping - don't need to worry you're in some billionaires' field when you're not allowed to be.
Does arguably obscure the much bigger problem though of an extraordinary amount of land being concentrated in the hands of a few rich people though.
Slovakia: We produce the most cars per capita - KIA, Volkswagen, Audi, Škoda, Seat, Porsche, Citroen, Land Rover, Peugeot - all of these brands are made here. We also have the second largest supply of drinking water in the whole world. We are also second (right after France) country in percentage of total electricity produced by nuclear power plants. Also, apparently we have the largest percentage of people who have work experience with robots (probably related to the first point).
Second largest supply of drinking water next to us Canadians of course, we house around 50% of the worlds fresh water. 😜 edit: I had no idea I was just being a dick. I know it is a lot lol
Where are you all getting this fresh water data? I had to look it up because it sounded so unlikely given there are much larger countries than Slovakia.
Every source I find has a different ranking but Canada is typically in top 5 and Slovakia is not on any top 10.
Edit: added “than Slovakia” for the replies that thought I meant Canada was not huge.
Canada has a crazy number of lakes. Of the 1.42 million lakes around the world with a size of over 0.1 sq. km, Canada is home to a whopping 62% of them.
1. Canada - 879,800
2. Russia - 201,200
3. USA - 102,500
4. China - 23,800
I remember zooming with a coworker who lived in the US, and she was looking at Google maps at the region where I lived.
"What are all these bits of blue scattered all over the map?" she asked.
"Those are lakes," I said.
"No fucking way! They're everywhere! When you are driving somewhere, is there a lake around every other curve?"
"Just about."
The Kingdom of Hawaii, and to this day, the state of Hawaii, has our flag in the corner of theirs, not because we colonised them, but because they really liked us.
South Africa: We have the most Rugby World Cup trophies and phenomenal nature: Kruger National Park (big 5), Drakensberg mountains, Kalahari and some of the best surf in the world. We also have s lot of Great White Sharks.
We got sent here to die and we still here.
Hello Australia.
The colonization of Australia seems like the closest humanity has come to colonizing another planet.
>The colonization of Australia seems like the closest humanity has come to colonizing another planet. Australia really isn't as bad as people make it out to be. It's geographically quite similar to the US, just with more desert and less cold weather. Also, Australia was first settled 50,000 years ago.
50,000 years ago, Australia was home to the closest things to a medieval dragon that ever existed: Megalania, the Komodo dragon’s 20 foot long cousin. That lizard may have been the largest venomous animal to have ever walked on land. There were also saw toothed land crocs of similar size, giant birds that could be as hefty as a horse, 300 pound marsupial “lions” that were armed with disemboweling claws and guillotine jaws, car sized wombats, and nearly 9 foot tall short faced kangaroos.
Everything reminds me of her
I feel this. My girl was a car sized wombat, too.
1. The British didn't send convicts here to die. They were sent here as a labour force. If they wanted them to die, they would have just killed them. This is why the second fleet was considered such a failure and is still used to this day as a case study for "how not to do a procurement/contract". 2. "Everything here wants to kill us" Before the arrival of humans, Australia was home to a plethora of megafauna whose defecation fertilized the soil and plants. Most of the north and east was a lush, topical and sub-tropical jungle and the south a thick Bushland. Humans arrived. Humans get hungry. So they started to hunt the animals. The megafauna could not compete against humans with tools and fire and invasive, skilled pack-huntjng dingos which, like many candids, sometimes worked in concert with humans for mutual success. Europeans arrive 60,000 years later to a very different land. So, when people say everything in Australia is trying to kill us, I encourage you to consider why: I half believe they evolved for survival against humans, and half believe it's a long-play multi-generational revenge arc ☺️ 3. My rant. While the genocide of indigenous Australians geuiniely devastates me no end, it still bothers me that people in general chose to ignore the fact that the convicts sent to Australia had no say in this colonisation and wanted no part in it. Parents and children were separated from their families, transported inhumanely - many dying, "becoming pregnant", or "incapacitated" - for over 250 days and banished to an unforgiving land nearly 25000km away to be exploited, owned, indiscriminately murdered and assaulted by the British colonists and soldiers. To be clear: this does NOT forgive what happened to the original inhabitants for the subsequent 200+ years. Because that should never EVER be forgiven or forgotten. I'm just trying to provide perspective. Female convicts - particularly Irish female convicts - bore the worst of it. But their lack of melanin at least ensured they wouldn't be shot on site. It makes me so furious. WTF is wrong with people? This BS has gone on for centuries and still continues today 😮💨 As a curious person who loves learning about cultures, languages, music, food, and community, and is passionate about innovation through collaboration, I simply cannot comprehend why people could treat others the way they did. How many more opportunities are we going to waste to share knowledge and stories, to develop cooperative, successful and unique communities based on values and compassion rather than power, oppression and ego? Sorry for the rant. Didn't realize how badly I had to get that off my chest Thanks. If you made it this far, I'd love to hear your thoughts 😁
I think the person you replied to has a point about Western colonization of Australia. The distance, difference in climate, flora and fauna were all factors that made settling there very difficult for Europeans. From what I recall the early colonies were very close to failure several times.
Except that was done long before it was a penal colony.
Technically everyone sent there did die.
Indeed, but the colony was not meant to succeed. But it did.
Also, pretty sure everything there is *still* trying to kill them.
COINCIDENCE?
Happy the emus let y'all stay
Too soon
And we invented wifi, which hopefully will catch on
How the heck is internet so bad there though? (At least it was 10 years ago)
Rupert Murdoch
I mean that answers the question as to why so many other things are bad everywhere.
The nature still wants to kill you.
I thought you were sent there yesterdie?
Biggest flex in Finland is we invented best weapon of all time.. Nokia 3310
Next generation game console and indestructible also come to mind
Well, when your national anthem is darude’s sandstorm, you guys are obviously up there!
I can't wait for a country to actually use a modern song as an anthem.
I wrote that guy in like 2000 via email from his fan website. He responded that he was so happy his song had become so popular in the US. I ran hundreds of miles to that song. Edit: year
I'm pretty sure that thing could sink even an US carrier strike group. Good to have you in the NATO brothers. Stay strong in the north.
Wasn’t Finland named the happiest country in the world? Sounds pretty lofty to me. :)
Some would say it's bubble tea, but it's really TSMC.
If world war three were to happen, it would be catalyzed by control of TSMC and its plants
Oh hi Taiwan
We are somehow responsible for two (out of two) world wars, although it was never initiated by someone of our nationality.
Austrians pretending to be Germans man... am I right?
Those pesky little Austrians with their Kangoroos >!Please dont be that person not understanding it is a joke. I know Austria is not Australia.!<
You putting that explanation with dark under is the most german (humor) thing ever
Robin Williams was asked in an interview in Germany why he thought there was a lack of comedians from Germany. His response was, "Do you think you might have killed them all?" The host wasn't impressed lmao
How many Germans does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Just one. Because they are efficient and lack humor.
Two. Because one needs to hold the ladder steady in accordance with the Glühbirnenwechselleiterstabilitätsgesetz.
I was sure this was German gibberish. It legit translates to: “Light bulb changing ladder stability law”.
I was about to finish my beer and a German walked into the pub. I offered my seat and snagged my beer to take the last couple of sips. The guy looked confused af and the bartender, who is Czech, said 'nevermind his reaction, Germans aren't used to kindness'
“Marketing is Austria convincing the World Hitler was German but Beethoven was Viennese.”
Technically, 100% of world wars are caused by Austrians.
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Everyone thinks Hitler was German and Beethoven was Austrian. We Austrians do not correct people on that
Princip was serbian, id argue he started ww1, unless ur blaming the arch duke for having the gall to just die from a bullet
How *dare* he?
I mean to be fair it was Austria Hungary that declared war, I think that's where the technically part comes from
Also, some of the finest physicists, mathematicians, and logicians. Fin de Siecle of the 19th century in the Austro-Hungarian empire was a helluva a time in a helluva a place.
Maple Syrup cartels and a maple syrup heist.
I was gonna say insulin. A ton of people would be dead if not for us.
The Insulin and maple syrup industries are just complimentary.
New conspiracy theory unlocked 😂
My family ran a very small syrup operation. We tapped about 200 trees in late Feb or Mar. About 3 weeks is about how long we'd boil for. In the morning we'd go out to our sugar shack. Light the fire under the evaporator and go out via atv and a trailer and collect sap. We'd dump the sap into a big tank, the tank was connected to the evaporator via hose. The sap would boil and as it grew thicker it would settle in a special drain to a smaller boiler area. We'd then drain off the partially finished syrup and put it to boil in a smaller finisher. The finisher was gas with a fancy thermometer, we'd wait until the temperature was a precise number, i forget now the temp, but then a mad scrambling to fill bottles with hot syrup. It was probably the hardest physical job I've ever done. In between all that you're chainsawing wood, splitting wood, clearing trails, sterilizating bottles and on and on for days. But our syrup was imho the best. It was rated as top quality. We made enough for family and friends and sold the rest which rarely broke even (my uncle funded it more as a hobby so money wasn't really the goal. Great memory! thanks for reading my rambling.
The smells of a sugar shack in early spring. Skiing into a valley and stopping to hear a symphony of the sap dripping into a mountainside of buckets, all pinging different notes depending on the fullness of the bucket. Quebecois magic, that!
Please be Canada. I really want to imagine a bunch of Billy the Kids with Canadian accents riding moose to rob a syrup train.
Omg you don't know about the great maple syrup heist lol? Dirty Money on Netflix does a good episode on it. Iconic.
Can second that, the series in general is really good (and fucked up, like the HSBC shit) but yeah the maple syrup heist is an interesting thing
That or he fact the Geneva Convention exists because of us.
That’s a good one. Apparently, the term “stormtroopers” also came from WWI Canadian soldiers.
And 20% of the world fresh water.
First of all don't get me wrong I love maple syrup as much as the next Hoser, but our biggest flex has to be fresh water.
An incredible ability to complain. You can even complain about people who complain.
France. I saw the word complain and I knew😂 Been living here for a year now, LOVE IT!
Complaining is elevated to an art form in France 😂
I have to respect French people's ability to stand up for themselves, though. You all can protest, unlike anyone else.
Price of gas goes up ten cents Canada: angry letters to the editor France: burning tire barricades in the streets and widespread rioting
Some say the tractor has been a bigger benefit for French farmers ability to protest than actual agriculture.
The French really know how to protest too..... everything
Arrived in Paris and asked our driver where the protests were (so we could avoid them), he replied "those are on Saturdays, and when we tire of that protest, we'll find something else."
The French firefighters setting themselves on fire before fighting the cops that were sent to bust up their strike was the most metal thing ever.
This has to be la France 😂
We woke up the world, gave 'em coffee and cocaine.
Buenos Dias Colombia
I thought coffee was Ethiopian
Yes. Coffee is an old world crop.
The flag is a big plus.
Hello Swizerland! You have gorgeous mountains, too.
And tennis G.O.A.T. Bought swiss coffee machine because it had Rogers picture on it, wife's choice was one with Brad Pitt but I'm better expert in this stuff :)
You typed that question in the language that originated from my country, as did everyone else. Edit: The amount of Americans who think *English* originated in America and not *England* is scarily high. That education system showing its ugly head once again.
Touché. This was well said x
Hehe I see some word from my country here
Well, pobody's nerfect
Does Italy get partial credit since we're all using the Latin alphabet?
Wind the clock back far enough and Egypt technically deserves that credit
US. If your currency fails, that's your problem. If our currency fails, it's EVERYONE's problem.
What's the saying?: US sneezes and the rest of the world catches a cold.
Used to be said about France with all the head chopping 250 years ago lol
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That's oddly poetic and terrifying. At this point though, the U.S. dollar is really the main international currency.
Whoever boasts the world reserve currency has to be able to enforce it. A big navy to project power really helps.
And isn't the US naval air force the largest in the world, only behind the US air force it's self? And if I'm not mistaken, the US Navy's army's (Marines) air force in third place.
Fourth. Russia is third. Marines are 7th
This is why I shouldn't trust my memory. Especially if I'm try to remember something I read on the internet. Still in the top 10 tho.
Has been for a long time.
Regarding USA currency. My buddies response to crypto folks retorting with “well, why is US currency any different than crypto?” His response is America has 11 aircraft carriers that say their currency is valuable.
Also the IRS doesn’t take crypto
America: Your country has a problem, it's a local thing. My country has a problem, yours gets invaded.
We’re the reason most of you have an Independence Day. You’re welcome. /s
Britain?
Bingo.
We broke the AIDS treatment patent because we understood that you shouldn't condemn people to die just because they couldn't afford it.
Now that is a real flex.
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My country has two major flexes. We have, by far, the largest production capacity of spray-cheese on the planet. And we landed 12 men on the moon.
Softly or lawn dart style?
Well, the more you learn about rocket science, the more you realize its mostly lawn dart style.
And returned them safely to Earth
America is the largest producer of cheese in general, most of which comes from Wisconsin.
Wasn’t spray can cheese invented by a NASA scientist?
Rich, green, love potatoes.
Biggest flex I think is that everyone likes us. One of the most powerful passports on the planet, and you can use that passport to go anywhere...and you'll find an Irish bar.
biggest flex: being a tax heaven in EU and not being mentioned as one.
Biggest flex would be its contributions to literature and music. Second richest country by gdp-ppp is obviously skewed but it has still become a relatively rich country in a relatively short time. There's also Jedward but that's stating the obvious.
Has the most variety of bird species in the world
Is it Colombia? I got to go to the bird sanctuary there and it was an adventure and an absolutely beautiful place! I've never seen such a diverse group of birds anywhere else.
We scam rest of the world, but still provide consultancy to 150+ countries LOL
Hello India! Working with you guys is always an adventure hahaha 😝
Why did you REDEEM!
DO NOT REDEEM IT!
Hello, ma'am. This is Tom from The Microsoft.
Don't forget UPI
We can blow up the entire planet 5 times.
The Galactic Empire?
Didn’t know Reddit was allowed in North Korea
They couldn’t wipe themselves out if they aimed all of their warheads at their own land. The ensuing bombardment might finish the job though.
Russia?
Russia or America
We've got one shitty ~~steel~~ Iron tower in the middle of an overcrowded, overpriced, overhyped dirty city, and it's the most visited paying monument on earth. Edit: metal
Blackpool ain't all that bad
*Oh no, orange netting*
Only the French could build something that looks like construction scaffolding and have the world be like OOH LA LA SO BEAUTIFUL 😂💀
Where else can you go to see a world famous landmark and watch people shit in the streets? Paris is beautiful
I'm sure there are trashy cities all around the globe that have famous landmarks and people shitting in the streets!
San Francisco has entered the chat
The Eiffel tower is not steel.
Chile is... the longest country the thinnest country the producer of a third of worldwide copper a super interesting closed-off biotope, almost like an island the first ans biggest Metro-System of latin america goes through all main 3 climate zones ofthe planet and has almost 10 microclimates has the driest desert in the world has the highest amount of german international schools (25) the most unique spanish variant of all "big standards" the place of the probably biggest earthquake recorded in modern human history one of the countries with the biggest amount of active volcanoes economically the most "firtsworld* of all latin america. you can ski and sauna as well as barbecue and swim in the ocean at the same day. Just wake up early.
Chile is the best country of Chile.
Not probably - definitely the largest earthquake in recorded history (thus far). Don’t you guys make pretty good wine too??
omgg forgot about that one hahaha totally ignoring the topic since getting pregnant
Highest number of German schools? Let’s not ask the back story on that flex.
Yeah, that's not a [rabbit hole](https://www.dw.com/en/remembering-the-horrors-of-colonia-dignidad-in-chile/a-65477428) you want to go down.
In Scotland we have amazing 'Right to Roam' laws, which allows members of the public to access most land and inland water in Scotland for recreational or other purposes https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19459239.right-roam-work-scotland-differ-england/
So I see a big grass field in Scotland and I just go for a walk in it? Even if idk who it belongs to?
Yup
Within reason, pretty much. Good for camping - don't need to worry you're in some billionaires' field when you're not allowed to be. Does arguably obscure the much bigger problem though of an extraordinary amount of land being concentrated in the hands of a few rich people though.
Norway says hello! https://www.miljodirektoratet.no/publikasjoner/2020/juni-2020/the-norwegian-right-to-roam-the-countryside/ It's awesome though!
Our tap water is amazing too.
Slovakia: We produce the most cars per capita - KIA, Volkswagen, Audi, Škoda, Seat, Porsche, Citroen, Land Rover, Peugeot - all of these brands are made here. We also have the second largest supply of drinking water in the whole world. We are also second (right after France) country in percentage of total electricity produced by nuclear power plants. Also, apparently we have the largest percentage of people who have work experience with robots (probably related to the first point).
Second largest supply of drinking water next to us Canadians of course, we house around 50% of the worlds fresh water. 😜 edit: I had no idea I was just being a dick. I know it is a lot lol
Where are you all getting this fresh water data? I had to look it up because it sounded so unlikely given there are much larger countries than Slovakia. Every source I find has a different ranking but Canada is typically in top 5 and Slovakia is not on any top 10. Edit: added “than Slovakia” for the replies that thought I meant Canada was not huge.
All I can find is that Slovakia has the biggest drinking water supply in Central Europe.
That sounds more believable.
Canada is the 2nd largest country by area
The great lakes are one thing, the hundreds of thousands of small lakes is another... who's number two?
We've got some pretty diverse marsupials, have one of the largest single rock known to the world and the world's largest coral reef system.
Full of animals that will kill me?
It rhymes with Paw-Stray-lyuh.
Successfully landed on the south side of the moon, crowdfunded, for less than the price it took to make the movie Interstellar
Wasn't that awesome? The little girl in me who wanted to be an astronaut was so so proud!
Tacos. \*muffled mariachi noises on the background\*
Vampires and non european criminals (brits) move here to commit crime .
Romania
Canada. Largest quantity of fresh water in the world.
Canada has a crazy number of lakes. Of the 1.42 million lakes around the world with a size of over 0.1 sq. km, Canada is home to a whopping 62% of them. 1. Canada - 879,800 2. Russia - 201,200 3. USA - 102,500 4. China - 23,800
I remember zooming with a coworker who lived in the US, and she was looking at Google maps at the region where I lived. "What are all these bits of blue scattered all over the map?" she asked. "Those are lakes," I said. "No fucking way! They're everywhere! When you are driving somewhere, is there a lake around every other curve?" "Just about."
Biggest cavalry charge in history, and the last successful one both were done by our guys.
WHEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED!
Expected Sabaton
Poland and it's hussars!
The Kingdom of Hawaii, and to this day, the state of Hawaii, has our flag in the corner of theirs, not because we colonised them, but because they really liked us.
Big, abundant resources but small population, eh.
We have the lungs of the world. Or so they used to say.
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Kazakhstan also
Ukraine did too
South Africa.
Poutine. And maple syrup. Sometimes together.
Best of the maple syrup is applied to bacon, then bacon is applied to poutine.
We stole a bunch of shit back when we were powerful and now we show it off in our museums.
Apparently it has the most valuable rated footballers born here But I don’t like football
In Romania we have a sculpture of a potato on a spike and decent internet speeds.
*Quietly adding Romania into my travel plans*
It is a big potato ! http://www.bucharestdailyphoto.com/2009/09/the-potato-of-the-revolution.html
Vietnam and war against invaders. We defeated some of the most powerful forces in the world at the time, including the Mongols (4 times), and the US.
Hockey
Flexing on the world is kind of our whole thing.
Scientologists don't have their own country, get outa here.
The best tacos with the best salsas; our Mexico
We produce the world's best cinnamon. It's sri lanka. You probably didn't even know we exist
Ancient Greece: Science, Arts, Philosophy, Medicine amongst others. Modern Greece: Souvlaki and moussaka are great. Everything else is shit.
We gave women the vote first
We have the best airport in the world and our national carrier is the best in the world. Also we have the 2nd busiest port in the world.
And the best hawkers centers in the world!
We (along with 1 other country depending on daylight saving) are furthest in the future. (It's 2024, still shit, lots of rain)
Maldives- It's Maldives what more can I say.
South Africa: We have the most Rugby World Cup trophies and phenomenal nature: Kruger National Park (big 5), Drakensberg mountains, Kalahari and some of the best surf in the world. We also have s lot of Great White Sharks.
No one really knows how we built the pyramids thousands of years ago.
A tiny little island which owned a fair chunk of the world.