Today I learned the global map we use is size-inaccurate.

Yeah, if you look at measures of land area Africa is bigger than North America by like 2.3 million square miles but it doesn't look that way on a Mercator Projection map.

On the subject of maps, I don't like how South-up orientation maps are often called "upside-down maps" because there's no such thing. It's long held convention to orient maps with North at the top but a South-up map is just as valid a representation of the Earth's surface. We're just not accustomed to visualizing it that way.
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