The map doesn’t go East enough, so how will I ever know if there’s a Midnight Train to Georgia?

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Middle-Earth is fictional. Everyone knows that.

…yet.

Eleven. It’s not even funny.

I’m recording all the noise…

No, but a track from Negativland’s best album is fun to listen to.

Yes, but do you know how many time zones there are in the Soviet Union?

Because I already asked once.

Do you know how many time zones there are in the Soviet Union?

Not at all! They could be carried.

I’m annoyed that the greater white-fronted goose is in red, the white stork is in yellow and the lesser black-backed gull is in white.

Doggerland was discovered when a dredging trawler brought up a block of peat and they found a stone tool inside. They were, of course, initially mystified about how a stone tool could end up inside peat under the ocean.

Also, a henge isn’t a stone circle. It’s a ring-shaped earthwork. What we think of as Stonehenge is a ring of Megalithic standing stones (not all standing stones are in a circle incidentally) in the middle of a henge.

The waves on Lake Michigan were far larger than I expected when I visited. Not as high as the Atlantic or Pacific, but pretty big.

Don’t accidentally drop your phone in Lake Baikal. You’ll never get it back.

I would play the hell out of a Carcassonne game where the coders attempted to make the tiles look like an actual aerial view like that. I’m not even a big Carcassonne fan but that would be so cool.

Not a single motte and bailey.

Not for long.

Since we are talking county and not city, metro area must be accounted for. L.A.'s metro area is actually far larger than L.A. county, but that’s another issue.

Cleveland metro area: 3.7 million people Cincy metro area: 2.2 million people Columbus metro area: 2.1 million people.

I admit that was more people than I realized, but it’s definitely not larger.

Cincinnati and Cleveland both have decently-sized populations and there are enough smaller cities like Columbus and (ugh) Youngstown to add to that.

Remember that the reason Illinois doesn’t fit that map is mostly due to Chicago.