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axl :

why would u pick this map😭

T-DØG :

it took me too long to realize that the map was white

Wikipedia :

Fun fact, the English word "jaggery", a coarse brown sugar made from date palm sap or sugarcane juice, has a similar etymological origin!

jdzmjdzm :

this map has to be another social experiment

aoshi the engineer (suhaib) :

took me way too long to figure out the land is white

Gburnett8 :

It took me two watches to realise the land was white on the map and THE SEA IS GREY. Why would you do that???

lune :

what wrong with the map???? i can’t see it

astral :

Never found smthn wrong with the map until someone pointed it out

Lycan :

Btw Sugar Cane originated in Papua New Guinea… then Austronesian sailors brought it to Southeast Asia and then India.

Felix :

Wait so sugar and crocodile comes from the same word?😭😭😭

JeffryLaPoint :

Hang on ima have to run this back bc how did we get to crocodiles

alberto_cringe_ :

half this video trying to figure out what island chain this was

Bartek3p0 :

having land brighter than water on a map should be illegal

chriS :

It's so beautiful that wanderwort seems to be a wanderwort.

Steel :

i had a stroke looking at this map because i thought the grey parts were land and white parts were water

h :

did you genuinely think it was a smart choice to choose this map

sam :

I thought I was the only one confused with the map😭

demz :

so "rock candy" is more accurate than we thought

Erin :

negative space map what the hell

Dan Thomas :

I’m struggling to see the link between korkeh and sarkara

FantaTea :

sarkara is brown sugar. Bengalis call white sugar chinni because it came from china

Lily (Taylor’s Version) :

Never been this early, kinda nervous

finnsoswwwt :

tuff stuff dude

Atavus Finch :

MuteNPC :

I love etymology sm I'm about to cry