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This sentence is very funny to me: "Most people in the Northern Hemisphere hang their pictures on a wall."

I guess OP did some research but perhaps wasn't exhaustive and didn't want to generalise to below the equator. People write funny and quirky things. I'm glad things like archive.org exist to save the quirkiness for future generations.

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Or maybe the author is not discarding the hypothesis that, in the southern hemisphere, frames tilt backward due to the Coriolis effect ;)

I've heard that at the equator, people put pictures on the ceiling; they're held there by centrifugal force.

Jubal called out, "That house on the hilltop--can you see what color they've painted it?"

Anne looked, then answered, "It's white on this side."

Yes, in this case, it's quirky and possibly endearing. When people feel like they need to document trivial comments by writing "Edit: typo", less so.

Nice Heinlein reference. That particular concept stuck with me after reading SIASL

OP kinda has a point though they did not phrase it effectively. From my experience, here in Asia we generally don't hang paintings/drawings/anything on walls. Most framed images are photos and these are more likely to be placed on shelves, tables suchlike.

TIL Asia is in the southern hemisphere

It is very well known that Down Under the roof is down and the floor is up. Thus, the pictures are not hung to the wall: they are anchored to it!

There are many who place frames on top of mantles, piano or other objects....

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