Ivory Coast v Norway is the World Cup Round of 32 match that best shows the absurdity of the Mercator Projection.
Despite Norway being shown on most maps as far larger than Ivory Coast, the two countries are actually almost identically sized. Ivory Coast is 322,463 km², and Norway: 323,802 km².
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Turkey v USA is the World Cup’s only group-stage match where both countries’ largest metropolitan areas sit on the 41° latitude line.
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Finally: after 96 years and 992 matches, this USA-Australia match will be the first in men’s World Cup history between two nations that respect the tradition and history of the sport by calling it soccer
Not that anybody asked, but the last time the @NYKnicks won a championship, the planet Neptune had not yet completed one orbit around the Sun since its discovery in 1846.
@cgarber8 Agreed, but Q was in a much stronger position in 97 - he could take risks in bis film making. If JB had flopped it wouldn’t have ruined him, but a Pulp Fiction flop might have.