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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)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by tetris11@lemmy.ml to c/todayilearned@lemmy.ml

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[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml -4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Then you said it wrong.

What you said was 'only countries' not 'only countries that weren't obvious to me'.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml -3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

That is a separate thing from what you literally wrote:

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

No, some of the ones you weren't surprised by also lead to water. That isn't conditional based on you learning something today.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml -4 points 2 months ago

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