stackyFACTSStepping across an invisible line can suddenly change the rules regarding fireworks, alcohol, and speed limits. Human cartography is just a massive tapestry of imaginary lines drawn by long-dead bureaucrats.
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Most of the imaginary lines separating nations were drawn by grumpy bureaucrats holding straight-edges over maps they had never physically visited. People…
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Clinging to analog navigation provides a false sense of rugged survivalism in an otherwise modern outing. The struggle to prevent the giant sheet from tearing…
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A specific brass marker in the barren desert allows a person to physically place each of their limbs into an entirely different administrative territory…
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Oil executives happily handed out completely free navigational guides for one aggressively simple reason: they desperately needed you to get hopelessly lost…
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Stepping over a completely arbitrary border instantly changes everything from the coinage to the local alphabet. It is profoundly weird that stepping ten feet…
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Despite what perfect map rectangles suggest, terrible 19th-century surveying equipment meant the actual state border has hundreds of jagged zigzags, making it…
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