'5 Geography facts You’re WRONG About' | Not you but, people. | reaction

Geography facts that people are often wrong about. Watching Side Projects, talking geography, history, whether it has snowed in the Sahara and fun facts. Plus a book and music recommendation(s).

Book Recommendation(s):
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann:

Music Recommendation(s):

More info:
Huge ancient lost city found in the Amazon:

[Tijuanabill]

Steve Martin in the sombrero is from "Three Amigos" with co-stars Chevy Chase and Martin Short. Its the trope of stars of Western films mistaken for actual heroes, while unwittingly participating in a real situation, that they think the film studio staged to entertain fans, all the while not speaking Spanish while in Mexico.

[LL]

You definitely have seen Simon before. He has a lot of different channels but his biggest is probably Biographics.

[oxonomy]

The Mercator projection is based off the poles and the equator, it makes straight lines in the map correspond to constant compass bearings

[martinthompson]

I'm a limey and with you on the pronunciation of Mercator, this guy seems to pronounce several words like someone who has read stuff and imagined how to say it without reference to other views. He's not properly posh just uses some home-grown affectation.

[NoahFroio]

Biggest misconception about geography I think of relates to the first one here; that many think the largest desert on Earth is the Sahara, when it is actually, Antarctica - deserts don't necessarily have to be sandy, they just need be a land area which receives less than 10-inches of water preciptiation /year. Antarctica's cold freezes that water vapor from the air and also makes it the driest continent in the World.

[MeFreeBee]

I get a little miffed at the constant maligning of the Mercator projection as some sort of nefarious Euro-centric plot. To be clear, the area distortion was no a goal but a compromise. True, it may not have become so popular if Europe and North America were the areas which came out as teeny-tiny, but is not the fault of the projection which was revolutionary in it's utility for navigation.

[JustinB-]

This is less of a misconception and more of a fun fact that I thought was surprising when I first heard it. The eastern most point of Brazil is significantly closer to Africa than it is to western most point of Brazil.

[cuszco]

Simon "fact boy" Whistler might seem familiar because the dude figuratively runs half the channels on this platform 😂

[Lawrence-kd]

The topic variety keeps me on my toes but I always leave your posts learning something I didn't know before. Thanks.

[thewhat]

Accurate title, I was in fact wrong about all of those 😂

I was taught 7 continents, one thing that I used to think as a kid was that to be a continent it had to start and end with the same letter. I don't why I thought that, but I was sure it was a rule.

The movie clip was from "The Three Amigos" I believe. Pretty good comedy from what I remember, but it's been a while. I'm definitely a book person, but I don't mind reading from a Kindle if I have to, but you're spot on about highlighting not being as satisfying, it adds... Something to the book, but I'm not sure what. Personality, let's go with that.

[robertcampomizzi]

1:10 "Three Amigos" but i recommend "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"

[DenUitvreter]

I believe Gerardus Mercator was the latinized name of the Flemish born Gerard de Kremer. So the Dutch pronunciation of Latin makes it into "Mair-Káh-tor".

[WarTimeeStories]

She looks really cute with her cat t shirt! She always has a lovely glow and sparkle in her eyes! 🥺❤️

[earthwormandruw]

I always thought this was Vsauce pretending to be british

[WarTimeeStories]

Love your reactions no protocol! I always like watching you when I’m anxious it’s very cozy! 🥺❤️

[JustSomeApparition]

In the first clip Simon made the distinction of the Sahara being the "largest hot desert", but what is the largest of them all?

The South Pacific Gyre

With an area covering around 37 million square kilometers it dwarfs the Antarctic Deserts 14 million square kilometers (which is the desert that most people tend to guess) by a significant margin.

[freudsigmund]

The channel CGP Grey has a great video explainer on "How many continents are there?"
Continuing the difficulty already mentioned in this video.

[modulel]

0:35 -
1- One thing that most tourists get wrong when they visit Porto, Portugal: the south bank of the Douro River is not Porto, it's a completely different city called Vila Nova de Gaia, which is its own municipality and county capital.
2- All the Port wine cellars are located there, not in Porto.
3- The Christ The Redeemer statue is not in Lisbon, it's in a city called Almada, which is the capital of a county located on the south bank of the Tagus River, that belongs to a different district: Setúbal.
4- Cabo Verde and S. Tomé e Príncipe are not former portuguese colonies. They were inhabited islands and we were the ones who populated them, so there was no colonisation.

[MagsonDare]

My favorite "geography fact" is that the easternmost parts of Russia and about the northern 1/3 of Japan lie on the North American tectonic plate, so they are "technically" in North America... not that anyone would actually label them as such.

For me, I was taught 7 continents, with the caveat that it could arguably be 5. North and South America were taught as 2, but arguably 1. Europe and Asia were also taught as 2, though arguably 1. Then there was Africa, Australia, and Antarctica to round it out.

[WarTimeeStories]

I love her hair, her beautiful smile and lovely eyes! She is so beautiful and pleasing to the eyes! Always nice when she uploads! 🥺❤️