Admit your ignorance - things you've only just realised/learned

[Dogtrousers]

You think that's a shock - I just found out Eva Green IS French! :O

Wasn't she married to ...

Oh no, that was Braun. I get them mixed up. Colour blind, you see.

 

[Chris S]

One of my local roads has had bollards placed across it to help create a LTN. It's now more dangerous in icy weather, gritter lorries can't get down it anymore.

 

[Chris S]

Greenland is about a quarter of the size of Australia. It just looks bigger on a map because of the way that the earth's spherical surface is projected on to a flat page.

 

[Fastpedaller]

Greenland is about a quarter of the size of Australia. It just looks bigger on a map because of the way that the earth's spherical surface is projected on to a flat page.

But aren't they both depicted in the same way on maps?

 

[Chris S]

But aren't they both depicted in the same way on maps?

Size is distorted exponentially as you get further from the equator. Australia is nearer to it than Greenland.