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Japan bombed America with balloons. 🎈 285 incidents from Alaska to Mexico and Michigan, and one shut down the reactors making plutonium for the atomic bomb. Did one land in your state? 🇯🇵🇺🇸🇨🇦 🎈 Nov 1944: about 9,300 paper balloons with bombs rise from Japan's coast 🌬️ The winter jet stream carries them across the Pacific in about 3 days 📰 Jan 1945: a press blackout keeps the landings secret ⚡ 10 Mar 1945: one hits a power line in Washington, and Hanford's reactors shut down 🗺️ By August: 285 incidents in 17 states, Alaska, Hawaii, Canada and Mexico Did one land in your state? 👇
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The biggest foreign group in every district of Germany, 1998 → 2025 🇩🇪
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Atlantropa: The Plan to Lower the Mediterranean Sea. In 1929, German architect Herman Sörgel proposed building a dam across the Strait of Gibraltar to lower the level of the Mediterranean Sea by 100 meters in the west and 200 meters in the east. Based on our calculations, using current seafloor data, approximately 450,000 km² of new land would emerge-roughly the size of Sweden (Sörgel’s own estimate was larger); the dam lines are for illustrative purposes.
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The Day Britain Became an Island 🌊 At the end of the Ice Age, it was possible to walk from Britain to the European mainland; this landmass, which now lies beneath the North Sea, is called Doggerland. As sea levels rose, the last land bridge was submerged around 7000 BC, and Britain became an island. What do you think happened to the hunter-gatherers who lived there? 👇
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The biggest foreign group in every region of Spain and Portugal 🇪🇸🇵🇹
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France's Biggest Immigrant Groups by Département, 1968–2021 🇫🇷
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How Far Did the Vikings Go? From Lindisfarne to America, 793–1021 🛶
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Two Canals That Shrank the World: Suez (1869) and Panama (1914) 🚢
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Operation Barbarossa (1941): From the Border to the Gates of Moscow⚔️ Work by me.
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America Has Dozens of Springfields. Which One Is The Simpsons'? 🗺️
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Britain Has Invaded All But 22 Countries. Is Yours One of Them? 🇬🇧
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Cut the world into 8 slices of 1 billion people each. Which one are you in? 🌍🔪
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Alexander’s empire expand, campaign by campaign, from 336 to 323 BCE.
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Before 1492, Italy had no tomatoes 🍅 Take everything that came from the Americas out of Europe's favourite dishes and watch what's left. Pizza ends up with garlic, oil and cheese. 🥔 No potatoes: no chips, fries or rösti 🍫 No cocoa: no Black Forest cake, no Sachertorte 🌽 No corn: no mămăligă 🍕 And Italy? Pizza without tomato Which country would lose the most? 👇
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Titanic's Only Voyage (1912): Southampton to the Iceberg, on One Map 🚢
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Evolution of the most popular First Names in France along the years (1946-2011) - boys edition
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Spain’s most popular female names, generation by generation-from the 1930s to 2024. Work by me.
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