"I saw something on TV once where they put all of Europe in Texas (grabbed the map and pulled it over). It's way more tiny than we are (fits in one of 50 states!)."
You might want to do your own research on that.
I used to live in Europe, and did some driving. From Where I lived in Southern Germany, to a place in Southern Italy was 950 miles.
I will grant you the scale is smaller. But you can NOT fit Europe into Texas.
Texas is about 700 sq. kilometers.
Germany is about 347 square kilometers.
France is about 547 square kilometers.
So you see just these two alone, exceed the size of Texas.
how do you say yeehaw in french and german.
french: haw de yee?
german: some 40 letter long word
Texas 269,000 square miles. and yes most all of Europe fits in it.
Europe is tiny.
Sorry, Texas not 700 sq km. Try 419,062.4 sq km. Bigger than Germany, France and a few others combined.
Perhaps I should. That world map gets way smaller at the poles than in the middle where the US is stretched out.
Thank goodness not all of us just watch TV. Some of us are "truth seekers". :^) I believe it's Spiff's tagline that says "Never believe what you think".
France + Netherlands + Denmark + Belgium...
is about 13,900 square miles SMALLER than Texas...