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How did people figure out directions for long road trips before GPS?

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/1vazi37/how_did_people_figure_out_directions_for_long/

Vatican has its own football league with 8 teams. Oh wait, Vatican has a national team. Oh wait, Vatican has a woman national team! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_City_women's_national_football_team "no nuns on the squad, although nuns are welcome to play"

London’s most equidistant pub - "3170 pubs tested" https://equidistance.io/londons-most-equidistant-pub/

Orthosomnia - "where a person becomes overly focused on the sleep data shown by a sleep tracking device" "Instead of helping them sleep better, this concern with getting the "right" sleep score or number can make them more anxious and may even contribute to insomnia" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthosomnia

The 3428th richest person according to Forbes still has 1 billion USD to their name. There's no need to rank them, they all have more money than they and their whole family can spend. (source https://www.forbes.com/sites/chasewithorn/2026/03/10/2026-worlds-billionaires-list-facts-and-figures/)

"The Official Rules for Calling Shotgun" https://www.shotgunrules.com/

Genius. "Two people tried to enter a screening of The Odyssey without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse." Video at https://bsky.app/profile/mewefree.bsky.social/post/3mqzc5zlgu224 (and originally from tiktok but I don't use the app, not sure if that's easily shareable)

Left: Germany, right: Luxembourg. Later we crossed over the bridge "96 days after D-Day, the Allied Forces trod here on German soil for the very first time."

Typed "luxembourg" into the car navigation system, or rather it autocompleted a previous search. Took us 30 min driving through the country before we realized it's navigating us to the center of Luxembourg (the country), not Luxembourg (the city).

In other - quite relevant - news I bought a new t-shirt.

Now, are those coordinates for the city or the country? It's city, or rather the location of the shop in the city. `N 49° 36' 41" E 06° 07' 36"` https://opencagedata.com/demo#q=N+49%C2%B0+36%27+41%22+E+06%C2%B0+07%27+36%22&language=en

There are 2300 playgrounds in Singapore https://playsg.sg/

Every parking spot mapped on #openstreetmap (not me, random find)

"Amazon staff use AI tool for unnecessary tasks to inflate usage scores" https://archive.is/DrhD6

A traditional steering square.

"Monte Kali and Kalimanjaro are local colloquial names for" big mountain of salt in Germany. "with another 900 tonnes being added every hour" Looks huge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Kali

"My partner and I are from two different European countries that speak different languages. When we wanted to marry in the country of my partner, both our (catholic) churches needed to sync. They did so in their common language: Latin." (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48045079)

"Apple doesn’t know which stores, neighborhoods, or clinics you visit. And Maps doesn’t require you to sign in to use it. Even if you choose to sign in, Maps keeps your data in sync across all your devices using end-to-end encryption — so where you go isn’t associated with your Apple Account at all." https://ads.apple.com/maps

"gamblers on Polymarket appear to have walked away with thousands upon thousands of dollars by betting on those temperature fluctuations"
https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/someone-allegedly-used-a-hairdryer-to-rig-polymarket-weather-bets-155312411.html

I got an email after signing up that the 2026 #openstreetmap nudist summer camp was an April Fools joke. Don't fall for it. Wait for the real announcement.

source https://nitter.net/Jefferies_/status/1762227703946608992 via https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/1s6y9h9