TIL Korea has the most dolmens in the world (>35,000), and they look exactly like our Irish dolmens

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  1. Well I suppose it makes sense, there are only so many ways you can stack stones on top of each other

  2. There’s always some Irish person who finds themselves on the other side of the world and is just there, being all grand and the like.

    When we first meet aliens, we’ll find that the local pub and shop are run by Xy’nyjhg O’Reilly.

  3. Each day I find more similarities between ourselves and the Koreans. Added to the list:

    * Love of the drink
    * Land colonised by local bully
    * Land partitioned North-South
    * Americans love us
    * Cabbage and beef are staples in our cuisine
    * Dolmens

  4. Visited a place on a Korean island called Jeju.. it had almost the exact same rock formations as the Giants Causeway (to my untrained eye anyway) and they were much more impressive, Giants Causeway is definitely underwhelming in my opinion

  5. Ye never thought of it. Our school history classes are so centred around Europe you’d think everything started here. But maybe every continent region thinks that, or teaches that to their kids.

    I just can’t get my head around how technology and ideologies traveled around the world over oceans and glaciers seemingly at very similar time points. Even when you look at O-negative blood, it’s so rare but pops up in pockets around the world.

  6. Not to sound overly competitive, but surely there is no time limit on this record. We could build a few more now. Maybe put one in the middle of each roundabout just to really stick it to the Koreans?

  7. I don’t understand the biology, I just remember seeing a documentary about a weird connection between certain pockets of O-negative populations in Ireland, Spain and Japan (if I remember correctly)
    Normally there is a 5-15% of a population of O-Neg, but these historical locations had 30-40%. And they can traces the connections between all the other blood types, but O-neg is universally accepted by all blood types and it’s not clear why or how that came about.

  8. Korea and Ireland have a lot in common.

    Colonized and oppressed by their island neighbor to the east.

    Stereotyped as boisterous drunks by their neighbor.

    Became prosperous once the yoke was off.

    Now dolmens

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