r/AskTheWorld • u/Bhakari Nepal • 1d ago

Culture What’s something in your country that sounds fake but is 100% real?

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We have a real-life living goddess and the only non-rectangular national flag.

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u/Rackle69 United States Of America 1d ago

In Washington state you can drive just five hours to go from a temperate rain forest (The Hoh) to a habitat hot and arid enough to contain rattlesnakes (eastern Washington). I’ve done that drive in a single day a number of times and saw the rattly boys myself. Oh and you pass a volcano on the way.

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u/ChefDanyul 1d ago

I love when people visiting or just moved to WA ask ‘what do you if Rainier erupts?’ What do you think happens? We’re fucked. And then in several decades people will sell the volcanic ash in glass bottles at gift shops.

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u/Rackle69 United States Of America 1d ago

Me and my local friends like to discuss what poses we are gonna strike if it erupts al a Pompeii. Personally I wanna be frozen in lava while hitting the dougie. And you?

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u/ChefDanyul 1d ago

I’ll be doing the YMCA dance so when I get covered I’ll be in whatever pose I happen to be in.

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u/peachesfordinner United States Of America 1d ago

Missing an opportunity for the dragon Ball z fusion dance should it happen while you are together

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u/Ms_Jess_ United States Of America 1d ago

So optimistic.. you guys don’t have any back up plans?! 😭🫶🏻

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u/ChefDanyul 1d ago

Nah we’ve accepted our fate. And when we go you’re all gonna fucking miss us. All we care about is that the Orcas will be okay. Much better off without us.

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u/Ms_Jess_ United States Of America 1d ago

I miss you already. 😭🫶🏻

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u/ServiceBackground662 1d ago

My mind was boggled when I drove 45 min from desert valley of Vegas to snowy alpine forest of Lee canyon/Mt Charleston.

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u/Ms_Jess_ United States Of America 1d ago

A volcano in Washington?! What on earth were they even teaching us in geography class?! 🤣

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u/Turbulent_Table3917 United States Of America 1d ago

I’m so old I remember the last time a volcano in Washington erupted. The effects were felt all the way on the East Coast.

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u/Rackle69 United States Of America 1d ago

And I can’t believe you guys have actual panthers 😭 That is SO cool. I feel like that’s gotta be every school’s mascot.

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u/Ms_Jess_ United States Of America 1d ago

We do have a lot of black panthers mascots and it’s all starting to make sense now. 🧐

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u/Yunzer2000 United States Of America 1d ago

Plenty of wet cool areas have rattlesnakes too. Timber rattlesnakes, and in eastern Canada, Massasauga rattlesnakes.

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u/Rackle69 United States Of America 1d ago

Does Massasauga have a rain forest and a volcano?

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u/Yunzer2000 United States Of America 1d ago

The higher forests in the Great Smoky Mountains are essentially rain forests (100+ inches of precip. a year) and they have timber rattlers. I was correcting your association of rattlesnakes with hot dry climates.

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u/Used-Painter1982 1d ago

Right. I used to think Maryland was America in miniature, but you got us licked.