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Virginia's 1609 charter stretched 'from sea to sea', covering much of today's United States. Four maps show it shrinking as it ceded the Midwest, lost Kentucky, and finally split off West Virginia in 1863. https://t.co/EWvf1wFtA5
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In 1927 Paramount mapped California as the whole world: Lake Tahoe as Switzerland, Fresno's mountains as the Swiss Alps, the southern deserts as the Sahara. The aim was to keep costly productions at home rather than filming abroad. https://t.co/sER3GXWTAO
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The 2021 census counted about 123,000 US citizens across England and Wales. Most cluster around London, but the sharpest hot spot is rural Suffolk, home to the US Air Force bases at Mildenhall and Lakenheath. https://t.co/OS50zqVTUV
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In 2015 the head of Russian Railways proposed a road and rail link from London to New York, crossing Siberia and the Bering Strait. Roughly 20,000 km long and costing trillions, it never left the drawing board. https://t.co/q5J9HaPzHo
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Most European words for 'I', from English 'I' to German 'ich', French 'je' and Russian 'ya', descend from one Proto-Indo-European root. The outliers, like Finnish 'mina' and Hungarian 'en', come from other language families entirely. https://t.co/ojZhKm92M8
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Europe still holds around 50,000 brown bears, about 14,000 of them outside Russia. This map shows where they ranged in 2000, from Scandinavia and the Carpathians to the mountains of the Balkans. https://t.co/YAxpBRi27S
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Divide Nevada into three regions of equal population and two of them fit inside greater Las Vegas, while the third is the entire rest of the state. Clark County alone holds about 73% of all Nevadans. https://t.co/KWcuoBGG00
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Put the world's 25 largest lakes side by side and the Caspian Sea swallows the rest: about 371,000 sq km, holding roughly a third of all the water on Earth's land surface. Lake Superior is a distant second. https://t.co/0KAV9TwW9E
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Half of the entire US population lives in just 142 of the country's roughly 3,143 counties, about four and a half percent of them, clustered around cities like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Houston. https://t.co/D8hX6hRVbz
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The Americas as drawn in an Ottoman atlas of 1908, every label in the Arabic script then used for Turkish. Turkey abandoned that alphabet for a Latin one in 1928, leaving maps like this unreadable to later generations. https://t.co/zzzxESs4Gb
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@amazingmap Use the correct name: Megacity One.
Two weeks in an iso-cube for your ignorance. https://t.co/qnedMKlceO
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@amazingmap in school i was taught that this area is called “boswash” and then never heard that term again. sounds like a load of boswash if you ask me.
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The Northeast Megalopolis, the band of cities from Boston through New York and Philadelphia to Washington, holds about fifty million people, roughly one in six Americans, on under two percent of the country's land. https://t.co/u8CTsnd8TA
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The minimum legal marriage age in each US state, after exceptions. A few states have historically set no statutory minimum at all, though a growing number now ban marriage under 18 outright. https://t.co/DMTMt3tDXQ
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@amazingmap Pele has more World Cups than England and Spain combined.
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@amazingmap And only 1 was qualified and got in in all 22 of them. https://t.co/5uxi9MC240
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@amazingmap Imagine making it the world cup final three times but never won it :(
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Only eight nations have reached football's summit. https://t.co/Nb3Grsczgq
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@amazingmap canada post workers would laugh and then use this envelope to light their 13th cigarette of the day before they call another strike during the Christmas season
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@amazingmap I found it too. https://t.co/yA0YJi54WH
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@amazingmap The Story
- reported by BBC 9 years ago in 2016 https://t.co/PhLBKjXIPV
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Icelandic postal workers deliver a letter guided solely by a tourist’s sketch https://t.co/XWc0P6PRhU
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Against accounts of the same size
15 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.
Median views18 039this account5 983median for 100K–1M
Reach, %3.04%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %0.82%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M
| Metric | This account | Median for 100K–1M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 18 039 | 5 983 | 3.02× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 3.04% | 1.49% | 2.04× |
| Engagement rate | 0.82% | 0.93% | 0.88× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
30.5K5 Sep
668
360
425
18K
7.8K
31.4K11 Sep
26K12 Sep
24.1K
12.7K
29.5K13 Sep
19K
17.5K
9.5K
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
1.62%5 Sep
1.20%
0.83%
1.18%
0.77%
1.03%
0.53%11 Sep
1.95%12 Sep
0.80%
0.74%
0.81%13 Sep
0.50%
0.93%
0.82%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.
What the audience does
Likes85.6%35 542 in total
Reposts6.9%2 872 in total
Replies0.8%348 in total
Quotes0.2%67 in total
Bookmarks6.5%2 713 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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