25 Surprising Facts about Maps

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🍿 WATCH OUR OTHER VIDEOS: ► 25 Disturbing Facts About Our Changing Continents: https://youtu.be/w8hSLIQ3ZLs?si=rIrWEuImpH6Cw2V8 ►25 Time Bending Facts That Will Blow Your Mind: https://youtu.be/T_mIPGWRcVU?si=1RIrdIYY8Xhtxtic Here’s the thing about maps: they seem so ordinary, right? Just pieces of paper or pixels on a screen showing you where to go, where you are, and how to get where you’re trying to be. But if you look closer, they’re way more than just directional cheat sheets. Some maps are full of lies, some exaggerate, and some are just plain weird. And one map, which we’ll get to later, actually had something written on it that became one of the most enduring myths about cartography. So buckle in because we’re about to wander through 25 of the strangest, funniest, and most surprising map facts you’ve probably never heard. Please support my channel and get access to perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWqJpFqlX59OML324QIByZA/join 🔔 Subscribe for more tips just like this: https://bit.ly/3Ewz99H 🚀 Watch our latest List25 Videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/list25/videos 📨 Have a list idea? Submit it here: https://bit.ly/3Mu3gk1 Author: Hammad Music: Sky Map - Reed Mathis Chapters: 0:00 - Intro 0:55 - Greenland Isn't the Giant You Think It Is 1:51 - There's No Such Thing as a Perfect Map 3:02 - North Isn't Supposed to Be Up 4:09 - The Peters Projection Was a Bombshell 5:08 - The Dymaxion Map Looks Like Origami 6:08 - Map Scale Plays Tricks on Your Brain 6:53 - Maps Subtly Show Power 7:44 - The First World Map Was on Clay 8:36 - Medieval Maps Loved Monsters 9:41 - Here Be Dragons Was Rarely Used 10:32 - Jerusalem at the Center of Everything 11:35 - Portolan Charts Were Shockingly Good 12:21 - Ptolemy's Map Was a Bestseller 13:21 - Trap Streets Are Cartographer Pranks 14:10 - Paper Towns That Accidentally Became Real 14:49 - Governments Falsify Maps Too 15:49 - The Border Without a Fence 16:43 - How Maps Carved Up Africa 17:38 - GPS Didn't Kill Paper Maps 18:30 - Maps Can Get You in Trouble in China 19:06 - South-Up Maps Flip the Script 20:03 - The Paris Meridian Once Ruled 20:55 - The International Date Line Zigzags 21:36 - Google Maps Updates Constantly 22:41 - Cartograms Warp Reality on Purpose Follow us on Social Media: List25 Discord: https://discord.gg/ZcKZRspW7f Facebook: http://facebook.com/list25 Instagram: http://instagram.com/list25 Twitter/X: http://twitter.com/list25 Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/list25 Mike Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michaelbestrin Cameo: https://www.cameo.com/michaelbestrin Mike's Other Channel: https://www.youtube.com/dizmelife See more lists on our website: http://list25.com Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research