Quote Originally Posted by Juggernaut1981 View Post
Well to be fair... rivers flow towards the equator... So us "Other Hemisphere" people are used to north-flowing rivers.

It's about "in general" rather than "all and every". In General, rivers flow to the equator. In General, lakes have single outflows and unify (rather than divide). In General, rivers avoid higher-levels-above-sea-level.
Some of this is pure myth. Two of Europe's biggest rivers - the Rhine and Elbe as examples - flow northward, i.e. away from the equator. If rivers avoided higher levels above sea level they wouldn't be able to flow down to the sea (not that all rivers do that). They'd have to flow up to it.