The world isn't flat and maps lie. The UK and other Euro nations are overstated, and Greenland doesn't approximate a continent. You probably learned all this in school, but it's easy to forget. Unless you check out this infotaining video about the size of countries in real life vs. on a map for a dose of geo-reality.
And whether or not you're a New Yawka, you might enjoy OldNYC with 80,000 old photographs to let you check out 19th-century New York a la Google Street View.
"Against logic there is no armor like ignorance." -- Laurence J. Peter
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