Marginalium

52 of someone else’s fun links. Most I found interesting. Some highlights:

If you run one specific, but illegal, database query on a set of widely used health data, you can access Tony Blair’s entire personal medical history.

Film studios now add CGI effects to behind the scenes footage to hide how much CGI has been used to make the film.

In China, there are a registries of haunted apartments. If you’re willing to live somewhere with a sinister history, you can get a discount of 30%.

People whose surnames start with U, V, W, X, Y or Z tend to get grades 0.6% lower than people with A-to-E surnames. Modern learning management systems sort papers alphabetically before they’re marked, so those at the bottom are always seen last, by tired, grumpy markers. A few teachers flip the default setting and mark Z to A, and their results are reversed.

In 2024, around 10% of Anguilla’s GDP will come from fees for its .ai domain name.

Discerning readers will notice a few I posted myself as marginalia.