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How the Arctic and Antarctic were named
Cartographer 1: This cold continent has huge and super dangerous bears, how do we warn people?
Cartographer 2: Let's call it ThePlaceWithBears! What about this even colder one on the opposite end?
Cartographer 1: Does it have any bears?
Cartographer 2: Come to think of it, there's literally no bears here! ThePlaceWithoutBears it is!
Cartographer 1: Boom! Quittin' time!
funny but Antarctica doesn’t mean "the place with no bears", it means "not the place with bears"
which imo is funnier
I think it's "opposite the place with bears"?