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38 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 22 April 2013 07:01PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 23 April 2013 01:34:55AM 5 points [-]
  1. Chile is in the same time zone as the East Coast of the US.

I think more people get caught off-guard by the fact that Chile is in the opposite season of the US.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 23 April 2013 12:00:03PM 5 points [-]

Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun was full of many exotic things, but the fact that temperatures were hotter when the characters went north was still reliably weird for me.

Comment author: Alicorn 23 April 2013 06:09:28AM 10 points [-]

Those people must not like pomegranates nearly as much as I do. I spend several months of each year appreciating that Chile is in the opposite season.