Where each country thinks the turkey is from
Turkeys come from North America and were probably first domesticated in Mexico. Most of the world’s names for the bird point somewhere else.
Animals
Terrible maps of animals: the laws, the names and the statistics nobody asked for.
Countries where handling a salmon in suspicious circumstances is a crime
Handling a salmon in suspicious circumstances is a real crime in England and Wales, under section 32 of the Salmon Act 1986, and the same Act gave Scotland an offence of its own.
Which foreigners each country named the cockroach after
Russians named the cockroach after the Prussians, Germans named it after the Russians, and Slovenes and Croats named it after the Swabians. This map shows which foreigners each country in Europe named the same small brown cockroach after.
