[deadletters]

A lot of the world has close cultural ties and a shared history with Britain for some reason.

[shagie]

Relevant xkcd: Sunset on the British Empire https://what-if.xkcd.com/48/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_that_have_ga...

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_British_Empire.p...

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Tangentially tangent trivia - the largest park in the EU is located about 3° north of the equator. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guiana_Amazonian_Park

If it's not Britain, it was France or Spain.

[WastingMyTime89]

My daily reminder that France and therefore the EU has a land border with Brazil.

[crossroadsguy]

My daily reminder that a lot of this world is still directly colonised. Literally colonised in the classic sense.

[taway1874]

Yep. For "some" reason that I quite cannot put my finger on ;-)

[vkou]

You could definitely put a finger on the trigger of a muzzle-loaded musket.