[chatmasta]

The first time I realized the Nile flowed from South to North, I thought someone was pranking me. It just felt fundamentally wrong. That’s probably because when you look at a globe, the Nile seems like it should be dripping downward…

[YurgenJurgensen]

But the Mediterranean is right there. Did you think the Mediterranean drains into some sinkhole in the middle of Africa?

[chatmasta]

Well I was about eleven years old, so I’m not sure I’d even heard of the Mediterranean by then.