23 maps and charts that will amaze you
 

http://www.vox.com/2014/9/23/6829399...l-surprise-you

I thought this was very interesting.

Thanks, I just recently found out about the African size thing which was jaw dropping to me.

Very cool

Thanks for sharing. That was awesome.

They always say that africans are bigger

Just ask Jimmy the Greek

Thanks, #22 is really helping my self esteem issues.

I feel like I got cheated out of one amazing map.

Had a class once that showed us all of the world maps in use by various countries. An interesting revelation for a 20 year old Bob Dole.

Had they incorporated the latest dispatches from Lewis and Clark?

You just never get what you pay for these days

With #15, half to GDP is being created by less than 1/3 (110 million) of the population of the country.

Indeed. Some of the ink was smeared because the papyrus got wet.

Imagine the pin cushion Sacajawea was

That's pretty cool. Didn't realize anybody else used the same measurement standards as the US. When I was a kid in Europe, there was talk of the US changing to the metric system.

**** you, I like my feet and inches! MURCA!