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If you're in New York and you look due East across the Atlantic, what country are you looking at?

Most people would assume Portugal.

Nope, you're looking (over the curve of the earth, of course), at Morocco. Look just a tiny bit to the south and you're looking at the rest of West Africa. Look Southwest and you're looking at Australia, or even Brazil.

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