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TIL that Chile, Argentina, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Taiwan, Greenland, and the Phillipines are the only countries that you can tunnel through to hit another land mass. All others lead to water. (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I also love how Japan, barely just barely scratches the coast of Brazil.

In the anime Darker Than Black, one of the plot points is a Heaven and Hell Gate centered around Tokyo and Brazil, with the implication that one is the antipode of the other. But they're not!

The only place where Japan overlaps Brazil is the tiny Kagoshima prefecture

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Brazil also has the largest Japanese population outside of Japan

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Probably due to the expressway joining them through the earth's core.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Pretty fucked up that they displaced so many subterranean lizard people to build it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Eh those Morlocks have been farming us for years, about time they got some pushback