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From the fold-out (!) map in the 12th century Liber floridus to the Strava heatmap of where people (who own GPS watches and like to brag on social media) run and bike, maps tell us as much about the people who make them as about the terrain they map. For today's technically-it-is-still-Tuesday-in-some-parts-of-the-world Trivia, share some…

My Jewish friend told me that the reason why pork wasn't kosher is because eating it used to make people sick and/or die. Perhaps it was because pork wasn't processed, and stored correctly. Is there there any truth to this? If yes, why wasn't this a problem in the rest of the world? Pork is…

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