Many European maps during the Middle Ages had the East on top instead of the North, thus “to orient” meant to align the map to the East, the Orient. – WTF Fun Facts
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WTF Fun Fact – An Eagle’s Travels
The map below shoes the movement of an eagle over a twenty year period. It had the tracker fitted in Russia and it died twenty years later in the “valley of the child” in Saudi Arabia. – WTF Fun Facts
