I knew where they were, since the hijacked Ethiopian Airways flight crashed near there some years back.
Yup, this.
I believe I cought Nosmo King there a few times.
Well, I’ll be the idiot: I did not.
I read a BBC article yesterday about the crash and immediately said to myself “Where the fuck is Comoros?”. Then BBC had a map. Bless them.
You are not alone, sweetheart! But rest assured, with God as my witness, we will never be idiots again! (At least about this specific bit of trivia!)
For whatever reason, whenever I see the word “Comoros” my mind thinks “cormorant.” :rolleyes: Must be that the one word meant nothing to me, so my mind interpreted it to read something I was familiar with…
I found it out from reading this thread.
I knew about the Comoros because of all the geography quizzes I’ve taken. From the same site that Stinky Burrito posted.
Geography and map-gazing is a hobby of mine. I’ve intentionally memorized all the locations of the countries on the world map, as well as their capital cities. So, yes, but I don’t think the average Westerner is an idiot for not having heard of Comoros, unless one is French.
Coelacanths. Without looking it up, aren’t they those beings with only one giant foot that they can use to shade themselves from the sun, as widely reported in the first millennium?
Yeppers - them’s the beasts! They inhabit the beautiful Comoros along with headless people with their faces in the middle of their torsos.
I knew it because of one particularly loopy criticism of the LDS Church.
I knew they were northwest of Madagascar because of the Coelacanth. And Sir David Attenborough.
I’m another one who did because of geography quizzes, and feeling quite bad about how little I knew about African geography in particular.
I knew, but have no idea why I knew.