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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.

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  • Canada and russia

    More than 80% of which would lead you right to water

    France

    I'm a bit floored by this one.

    • 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.

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  • That was definitely my intent apparently, I thank you

    • 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.

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  • I know right, what kind of idiot would even conceive of such tomfoolery

    • 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.

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  • I believe so

    • 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.

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

    • 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.

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  • Fair enough, I'll add it to the title -- thanks for the correction

    • 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.

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  • "Today I, the author of this post, Learned" seems implicit to me, but I suppose we all make our own definitions of the acronym

    • 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.

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  • I'm sure you already know this, but just in case: if you want someone to learn something, it helps to actually point out their mistakes, rather than berating them with blank statements

    • 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.

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

    • 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.

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  • Yep, well quoted. To learn something, it has to be something you didn't already know.

    • 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.

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  • So if you pick a random point in China, Russia, or Canada and start digging, you can say with reasonable certainty that you would hit land? Or would you more likely hit ocean?

    Greenland one is true, I just don't find it that interesting since it's essentially part of the arctic circle

    • 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.

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  • Empty criticism isn't that welcome, but feedback with helpful corrections always is

    • 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.

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  • Definitely, but it's near the poles, so I find it more obvious than eye-opening. It'd be like saying you could tunnel through the north pole to get to the south pole. It's true, but it's not interesting.

    • 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.

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  • The definition I'm using is something like: "more than 80% of a country's landmass is covered by a landmass on the other side"

    So china has parts where you hit land, but most of it hits ocean, and so it's not on the list.

    • 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.

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  • Fun? Otherwise hard to measure overlap of anything unless I start referring to topographic features / biomes / ecoregions which are less widely understood

    • 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.

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  • 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

    • 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.

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  • I'd argue that at least half of New Zealand isn't covered.

    I do agree that vietnam shouldn't be in that list, but Cambodia should?

    • 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.

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  • Sorry, finding an interactive map with simple country borders is surprisingly difficult. I tried OSM and Google and just wrote down the names I saw. My geography of southeast asia is obviously bad.

    Suggest a better title, and I'll happily change

    • Everyone thinks their condition normal before finding out it's not.

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  • If it's not normal to wake up in the middle of night with palpatations and existential dread caused by an overload of caffeine/sugar/terrible world, then I don't know what normal is

    • 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.

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  • Other countries like China and Colombia have partial coverage in some regions.

    The Greenland and Antartica antipodes don't really count imo