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Turtles all the way down (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Many Indigenous Americans called the continent "turtle Island" or similar in their native languages. We really missed the chance to have a cool local name, rather than the name of some random map maker who'd never even been here.

Also we could have named South America "Hydra" instead, because I mean have you seen the Amazon river? That thing's ridiculous.