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What's the funniest belief you had when you were a child ? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by Merlu@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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When i was a child, i believed autopilot really worked like in the movie Airplane, that it was an inflatable dummy.

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[–] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It is right there on the Eurasia map at the link you shared, and on the list of Eurasian territories, so OP was correct.

The thing is that "continental Europe" is not the same as the continent of Europe, which does include the islands. Mainland Europe is a less ambiguous name.

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Yep, it's part of the continent.

Also the Islands section of that page says this:

The largest Eurasian islands by area are Borneo, Sumatra, Honshu, Great Britain, Sulawesi, Java, Luzon, Iceland, Mindanao, Ireland, Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and Sri Lanka.

(Emphasis mine.)