Some of these don't show up for me (like Saturn). This might work better with a web-font? Although then you'd lose the harmonious platform emojis. I wonder if there's a way to check if a unicode character exists in a font and dynamically substitute, without using canvas.
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#92I didn't know goats were so tiny (45 cm)
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#93Is japan the only country that has its own map as a unicode symbol? If so, is there a story behind it? I would bet on compatibility with some regional encoding that had it to begin with.
The Wikipedia page of the creator has some links to the origin story:
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
Likely just a regional thing. Ants where I live tend to be slightly larger than our mosquitos, and they certainly have far more volume.
Ants where I live tend to be far larger than our mosquitos. When you say "far larger", is that twice as big? 10 times bigger? 1000 times bigger? I might have to avoid where you live.
There's more of these which are really weird, like the 12m cactus.
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#984-leaf clover larger than a credit card?
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#99Cool idea, but since one one dimension (height?) was considered, you get some weird things like a cactus (12m) being way bigger than a house (7m).
Very cool project tho!