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Let’s play a word association game.





What’s the first thing that enters your mind when someone mentions the United States?

Do you think of Hollywood? New York? Obama? Obesity?

And what about the Philippines?

Are you likely to blurt out, “Disaster!” “Corruption!” “Traffic!” Or, “It’s more fun!”

Weird data

Well, not to the website thedoghousediaries.com. In their view, the United States leads in “Nobel laureates and getting killed by lawnmowers,” while the Philippines is said to be known for its “social media use.”

Wut?

“Most countries lead the world in something—sometimes good things, sometimes not so good things, and sometimes funny things,” said the comics website.

Creating the map (seen on top of the page) “shows what each country does best compared to all other countries,” they added.

Betcha didn’t know that…

The info for the map entitled “What Each Country of the World Leads In” was culled from Wiki for the most part. Though that should warn you that the data may be less than sterling—hey, Thedoghousediaries is a comics website after all—the map is still a supremely entertaining time waster.

For instance, did you know that (if true):

Canada leads in maple syrup and asteroid impacts?

Mexico is tops when it comes to getting struck by lightning?

Bulgaria lives the American dream (in home ownership)?

The Netherlands stands tall with, well, being tall?

Estonia is the place to be if you like having the most women per man?

And Spain wins by a nose when it comes to cocaine use?

Geography skillz

It’s just as interesting (or challenging/exasperating) to try and guess the country to match the info because, as you can see, none of the countries are ID’d.

In the detail above, for example, can you name the country that leads in:

Robots?

Velociraptor bones?

Corruption (and it’s obviously not the Philippines)?

Speaking Burmese (giveaway)?

Long alphabets?

Sure, the data is trivial, but the map also tests your geography skillz.

Check out the large “zoom-able” version here for hours of mindless fun.

By the way, the answers to the pop quiz above are: Japan, Mongolia, Turkmenistan, Burma and Cambodia.



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