Originally Posted by Sly

The news. I also like to look at maps (goes well with your civilizations and origin history.) Read something strange in the news about a country, look it up on the map, you can't help but notice other countries in the surrounding area.

Case in point: Burkina Faso is in West Africa. Had I been researching Ebola and the countries impacted by this year's Ebola outbreak, I would have been blind to not see Burkina Faso.