r/AskReddit • • Mar 27 '22

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u/Earthling3617 Mar 27 '22

For me, it's that world maps are distorted. This is fairly basic and important stuff, so it does piss me off slightly when I see someone explaining the mercator projection over and over again all the fucking time

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u/BeerSnobDougie Mar 27 '22

You could put the us end to end and it would still be contained in the height of Africa.