Random story of the day:

Mapmakers often put secrets in their maps as copyright traps, to make sure no one copies their maps. For example, some map makers put fake streets in maps, sometimes fake features. If they see a map that has that street, they know it was copied from them.

Similarly, in 2005, the New Oxford American Dictionary published a new word: Esquivalience, meaning “Willful avoidance of one’s official responsibilities”. It was a made up word, a copyright trap to make sure no other dictionaries copied them. If anyone copied their dictionary, the stealer wouldn’t be able to come up with a source except for the New Oxford. (Dictionary.com fell for this trap)

Another example of a copyright trap was when the author of The Trivia Encyclopedia put a false fact in his book, because he was certain that the makers of the game Trivial Pursuit were taking his facts for the game. (The false fact was that “TV detective Columbo’s first name was Phillip” when the show never specified his name. Sure enough, the ‘fact’ showed up in Trivial Pursuit. 

My aesthetic is white walls and dark oak trim and maps of everything and lots and lots of plants

Does anybody else do this thing where you have multiple dreams in the same “city”? And I’m not talking about a real city I’m talking about something just completely made up by your subconscious. Like I have these in depth concept maps of at least 5 different cities that have been exclusively cooked up in my dream state and I could tell you about them and direct you around them as if they were my hometown