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Maps!

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

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Google Backs - The Ultimate Heist?

The whole modern world essentially uses the same single map. And that often makes life weird. There's so many layers to Google making a really comprehensive document of the Earth. They recently started offering both a Mercator projection, which stretches everything out and then a sphere where you just see the Earth in its general shape. Especially Greenland is probably the most famous fake big place.

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