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Geography trivia with a side of history | Test your knowledge & learn about the world! | Maps, visuals, & interesting facts | By Brian Thudium
Lexington, Kentucky, USA Sumali Temmuz 2025
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Not sure what happened yesterday, but I got 10k followers and my posts got some action. We’re back to normal today.
Tammi Minoski 🟦@TammiMinoski
I’m dumbfounded by what is happening on X today.
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@Osint613 @AZ_Intel_ How the two smallest US states can fit in the Strait of Hormuz:
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At its narrowest point, the Strait of Hormuz is only 21 nautical miles wide. For a different perspective, here’s how the two smallest US states by land area—Rhode Island and Delaware—can be wedged into the Strait.
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President Donald Trump, when asked whether the U.S. could take control of the Strait of Hormuz, said “Yes, sure, it’s already happening,” C14 reports.
Contributed by @AZ_Intel_.
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@vintagemapstore @NathaliaLeHen “Most daily cigarette smokers” for my state of Kentucky, a big tobacco state. It wasn’t that long ago I remember when going into a restaurant they would ask: “smoking or non-smoking”? Not anymore!
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U.S. Map, labelled with ways that each State ranks the worst in the nation
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@liz_july4th @MoundLore I like Town Branch! That’s right here in Lexington and the name commemorates the hidden stream that runs under the city.
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This was several years ago. I realized that I didn’t know anything about bourbon, an all American spirit. lol lol Absolutely nothing. Combining history, I booked several distilleries’ tours. lol lol
I don’t recall the exact name, BUT it was here 👇👇👇 The owner is Irish born. He produces Irish whiskey made in Ireland and sold at the distillery.
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You can tell when people in Japan genuinely enjoy American culture because they don’t treat it like one big blur. They notice the parts. The cut of an old sweatshirt. A certain kind of roadside sign. The sound of a diner. A regional food. A way a shop feels. A trucker hat from one era means something different than one from another, and they seem to get that.
A lot of Americans don’t even move through their own culture that way. We live inside it, so it flattens. It becomes background noise. Gas stations, county fairs, old jeans, chain restaurants, blues, soul, workwear, faded motel signs, ballcaps, pickup trucks, neon, booths, pie, college sweatshirts, local habits. To us it can just feel like regular life.
But when somebody far away enjoys those things with real curiosity, it reminds you how specific this country actually is.
That’s what I think people are picking up on.
American culture is not one clean export. It’s a huge pile of regional habits, class signals, music, labor history, style, food, slang, and everyday objects. Some of it is rough. Some of it is beautiful. Some of it only makes sense if you’ve lived around it. And yet it still travels.
That says something.
It says American culture is broad enough to hold a thousand different versions of itself, and distinct enough that somebody across the world can fall in love with one small corner of it. Not the whole machine. Just a piece. A feeling. A texture.
And honestly, that’s usually how real appreciation works anyway. Not by taking in everything at once. By finding one part that feels alive to you and staying with it.
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@liz_july4th @MoundLore What was the beer? I like Country Boy (a local brewery) Cougar Bait.
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@IntoGeo @MoundLore Once I cross the border to Kentucky, it’s all about bluegrass, bourbon 🥃 , horse racing, Daniel Boone, Henry Clay, and Civil War (🤣🤣🤣)
A few years ago, the best beer I ever drank was at a distillery near Lexington; it was not bourdon, but beer. lol lol
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The first known map to use the name “America” is the Universalis Cosmographia, created by German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller (pictured) and his collaborator Matthias Ringmann in 1507. The name is placed across South America in honor of the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci.
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@liz_july4th @MoundLore I have to get into a certain mood, but Bluegrass music is so happy and relaxing. 🪕
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I am glad I found your page. You bring out another layer of our nation.
I agree with you. I am foreign born. My birth country is rich in history, porto wine, and fado, being one of the oldest sovereignties in Europe.
Yet, my eagerness to know and experience lies in our nation and all encompassing about us. Everything that you eloquently described has been my experience throughout my road travels in our vast nation. In South Dakota, my interest turned to the massive size of their pastries. In Colorado, my interest turned to visiting several outdoors outlets to find solid hiking boats. In Kentucky, my interest turned to bluegrass music. Now, I even pay attention to mailboxes, which are so telling about a town or community. The most awesome is in Michigan.
Foreign travelers do pay attention to all. In Louisiana, I met a Portuguese couple who told me about their experience in Texas and how Louisiana had been a different experience. We were touring a former plantation.
Again, thank you and thank you for teaching me about mounds.
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@TSHamiltonAstro Did you ever redo your thread about the Tennessee map that you were talking about a while back?
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“Dracula” actually had a rather modern setting for the time, with Van Helsing using a phonograph to record his notes. So the apparent incongruity wouldn’t really be as extreme as it might seem.
Eric Alper 🎧@ThatEricAlper
Nintendo was founded in 1889 making playing cards. Coca-Cola was founded in 1892. Dracula was published in 1897 and was set in the same time. You could have a Dracula adaptation where Dracula drinks a Coke and plays Nintendo and it would be historically accurate.
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@JacobCEdmunds Is X phasing out articles? I no longer see “top articles” on my menu options.
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An interesting strategy I’m seeing:
Creators riding the wave of a viral X Article by quoting it
I need to try it myself, but I’ve seen multiple people get 1M+ views from it
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@ESPNInsights The state of California has the most D1 NCAA men’s basketball titles with 15 total (UCLA 11, San Francisco 2, Stanford 1, and Cal 1).
And the state that comes in 2nd? North Carolina:
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The state of North Carolina comes in 2nd for the most NCAA men’s basketball championships with 13 total. This is thanks to the colleges of the Triangle—UNC in Chapel Hill (6 titles), Duke (5 titles) in Durham, and NC State (2 titles) in Raleigh. For the full rankings: ncaa.com/news/basketbal…
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On this date in 1939, the Oregon Ducks won the first men’s NCAA basketball championship, defeating Ohio State by the score of 46-33.
The last time an NCAA men's tournament game had fewer than 80 combined points was in 1999, when 12-seed Missouri State beat 5-seed Wisconsin, 43-32.
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@JoshuaBarzon Here’s when “America” first appeared on a map!
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The first known map to use the name “America” is the Universalis Cosmographia, created by German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller (pictured) and his collaborator Matthias Ringmann in 1507. The name is placed across South America in honor of the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci.
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How grey squirrels are replacing red squirrels in the UK and Ireland
Grey squirrels were introduced from North America in the late 19th century and have since spread widely, outcompeting native red squirrels across much of Britain.
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Israel, the United Kingdom, and France collaborated on the Protocol of Sèvres, a secret agreement signed on October 24, 1956. Under this plan, Israel would invade Egypt, providing a pretext for the UK and France to intervene as “peacekeepers” and seize the Suez Canal, which had been nationalized by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
Israel launched the invasion on October 29, and the UK and France soon joined the conflict. However, the plan backfired internationally—pressure from the United States, the USSR, and the United Nations forced the three nations to withdraw. The aftermath solidified the decline of Britain and France as global superpowers and signaled a shift in the world order.
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In 1956, three countries colluded to plan military action against Egypt during the Suez Crisis. Two of them were Israel and the United Kingdom—which was the third?
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