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Check out how land is used in the United States. Cows take up the most space!

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More chocolate, more Nobel prizes
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Beautiful illustration of where people are concentrated. If you squint, you can see Australia and New Zealand.

Map by @undertheraedar Third in a 🧵 of #2022TopTweets

Health spending per capita (x axis) & life expectancy (y axis) in OECD countries (lines = averages).

One country sits alone in the bottom right quadrant due to its much higher spending and below-average life expectancy.

More: oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/ae3016b9… 4th in🧵of #2022TopTweets

Gender pay gap
🇰🇷 S Korea 31%
🇮🇱 Israel 24%
🇯🇵 Japan 22%
🇺🇸 US 17%
🇨🇦 Canada 17%
🇬🇧 UK 14%
🇩🇪 Germany 14%
🇫🇷 France 12%
🇹🇷 Turkey 10%
🇪🇸 Spain 8%
🇮🇹 Italy 8%
🇧🇪 Belgium 4%
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Be sure to catch the end of this clever @NASA "climate spiral" video showing monthly global temperature changes between 1880 and 2021
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This amazing map shows travel time from London to the rest of the world in 1881
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2022 Press Freedom Rank
1 Norway
2 Denmark
3 Sweden
16 Germany
19 Canada
24 UK
38 Taiwan
41 Burkina Faso
42 US
71 Japan
86 Israel
110 Brazil
119 Qatar
149 Turkey
150 India
155 Russia
168 Egypt
175 China
178 Iran
180 N Korea
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Check this out -- major cities in N. America replaced by major cities across the Atlantic at the same latitude.

Gulf Stream makes winters less severe in many European cities than it is in their U.S./Canadian counterparts.

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Can you spot the circles?

It took me a long time. Once you see them, they'll seem obvious.

This is the Coffer Illusion, by Anthony Norcia
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The only things on this map are railroads!
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80% of Black Americans said social media help shed light on rarely discussed issues; the same share of White Americans said these sites distract from more important issues.
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Which US state has the largest share of people with ancestry from each European country?
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Check out this cool elevation map of the contiguous US
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The US is the only country with more civilian guns than people
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U.S. men's facial hair styles in college yearbooks from 1898-2008
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Workers working 60+ hours a week in one job
🇹🇷 Turkey 23%
🇰🇷 S Korea 23%
🇮🇩 Indonesia 14%
🇮🇳 India 14%
🇬🇷 Greece 11%
🇯🇵 Japan 9%
🇨🇳 China 6%
🇬🇧 UK 5%
🇫🇷 France 5%
🇧🇷 Brazil 4%
🇷🇺 Russia 4%
🇪🇸 Spain 4%
🇺🇸 US 4%
🇩🇪 Germany 3%
🇸🇪 Sweden 2%
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