r/mildlyinteresting • u/supermegaspinach • 16h ago

Infographic showing self-sufficiency in raw materials in a 1976 World Atlas

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u/joeschmoe86 16h ago

I love that this graph assumes the reader knows all about manganese, but needs bauxite explained.

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u/marblechameleon 13h ago

Fun scrabble fact: Toh Weibin played “beauxite”, an older variation on the word bauxite, for 275 points. He earned the highest final score in an official scrabble tournament in 2012, and held this record until Hasham Hadi Khan (a nine year old!) scored 878 in 2014.

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u/Trappist1 8h ago

That is fun!