Post * 6ELyw — Curious Curator

› added 4 years ago

57

TIL that China has restricted the use of geographic systems to only specific authorized entities, causing crowdsourced mapping efforts such as OpenStreetMap to be unlawful. They use a specific coordinate system known as GCJ-02, that intentionally offset places from their true location.

Read more

pYvmO TIL Dr. Lazarus' catchphrase, "By Grabthar's Hammer..." from Galaxy Quest (1999), was written as a temp line in the script. The plan was to replace "Grabthar" with something less comical, but the line stuck as the production crew started using it around their offices and had it printed on t-shirts.

XEvYr TIL of Ching Shih. Originally a prostitute who married a pirate, she ended up commanding a fleet of 20,000-40,000 pirates, battling the Portuguese empire, British empire, and Qing Dynasty at various stages. She married her adopted son, had two children with him and died a free woman at age 69.

ZvRD TIL that during the cholera epidemic in the 19th century ‘safety coffins’ were developed because of people’s fear of being buried alive

eYNb TIL that there is a one-room hotel near Antwerp Belgium that is a gigantic scale model of a human colon and anus. Originally created as a work of art, it is realistic in every way including color, veins and a gigantic puckered sphincter.

d8Dgj TIL Busty Heart, a big bust model who crushes things with her breasts, got all “no” votes from the America’s Got Talent judges, but got all “yes” votes and made it to the semi-finals on the German version of the show