Fun fact of the day: Arctic and Antarctic just means bears and no bears and at the time when the Greeks named the Arctic nobody had visited the Antarctic, but surmised that the opposite end of the earth be opposite without bears. They nailed it, dead on.
The Arctic was named for the constellation Ursa Major and the Antarctic for being far away from Ursa Major, but it is really cool that the names turned out to correlate to actual bears
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Anonymous#11d
Honestly I find it fucking hilarious.
*Looks around*, ehh, this one had bears so there’s gotta be one without them, right? 😂
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AnonymousOP1d
Lmao to be alive during a time with everything was fresh