It’s taken the internet by storm!
We love anything weird and wonderful to distract us from our post Bank Holiday blues here at Her Towers and this revelation about the map of the Americas has done just that.
One Reddit user posted the snap online earlier today, along with the caption: “I just realized the Americas sideways look like a duck…,” before adding, “I don’t know what to do with the information.”

Image via Reddit/ThreadlessJon
A lot of users have been commenting in surprise, wondering how they’ve never spotted this before, while others have pointed out that it’s more to do with the scale of the map than anything else.
Either way, it’s our interesting fact of the day.
So there you have it ladies and gents – a random, but quite fascinating piece of useless information for you.
We have since spent the day looking at maps of other continents sideways to see what we can come up with…
Have you something weird or wonderful you’d like to share with us? Drop us a line to hello@her.ie or tweet us @herdotie.
Image via Reddit: This isn’t the first time the post has surfaced having also been posted by kingshigh and Not_Austin in recent times.
