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Czechs drink nearly twice as much beer per person as anyone else. A national title defended for decades. 🍺 Data: Our World in Data (CC BY)

India grows more bananas than any country on Earth — and exports almost none of them. Data: Our World in Data (CC BY)

6/ Decades later, in the 1990s, Yugoslavia didn't expand — it violently split into seven countries. The union Tito once tried to build in one direction unraveled completely in the other. What other Cold War mergers almost happened? Follow @forummapping for more maps like this.

5/ Then Tito broke with Stalin outright in 1948 — the Tito-Stalin split — and the whole federation idea died with the friendship. Yugoslavia went its own non-aligned way instead.

Tito once dreamed of a South Slavic superstate stretching from the Alps to Bulgaria — a country that would have swallowed three modern nations whole. a thread 🧵🗺️

From Egypt to Persia, here's every modern country that gets a shoutout somewhere in the pages of the Bible.

Napoleon's Confederation of the Rhine has replaced the old Holy Roman Empire entirely, and his brothers are being installed as kings across the continent.

⚡ EU hits Google with new $1bn fine, saying it broke digital antitrust rules — Al Jazeera

Charlemagne, crowned in 800, is a documented ancestor of essentially every living person with European ancestry — genealogy's math makes it nearly unavoidable.

Landlocked Bolivia still maintains a navy of several thousand personnel — patrolling Lake Titicaca and waiting to reclaim the coastline it lost to Chile in 1884.

Noah dominates half the continent, but Eastern Europe has completely different favorites. See the full name map.

Nazi Germany at its territorial peak, just one day before Pearl Harbor changes the entire war — this is the map at its most terrifying.

⚡ U.S.-Saudi Nuclear Deal Stokes Israeli Concerns of Mideast Arms Race — NYT

Bir Tawil, a patch of desert between Egypt and Sudan, is claimed by neither country — one of the only unclaimed pieces of land on Earth.

Which country's cash is actually worth the most? The answer might surprise you 💶

⚡ US signs landmark nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia — BBC