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Is this actually different from when Matt Parker discovered ancient alien wisdom by plotting the lines between Woolworths stores?

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JwEYamjXpA&t=2461s)

Some of these maps are for time period not that distant from each other where the correlation is pretty straightforward, and those are probably telling at-least-partly-true narratives. For others, it's less clear. How many different modern and ancient maps are there which could conceivably have interesting (spurious) correlations?




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