Trivia
2014-05-05 12:42:41
Anthologica Universe Atlas / Trivia

Trivia

Add a comment here (or click the "comment" link on this post) to create a new trivia factoid. Submissions should be brief, relate to your conworld or conlang, and provide at least one link back to source material (preferably, but not necessarily, hosted here on Anthologica.) The best facts for trivia are those that are either amusing, unusual, or might entice other authors interested in the same thing to read the link material and become inspired. Look to Wikipedia's "Did you know?" section for further inspirations on style and substance.
Anthologica Universe Atlas 9 years ago

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9 years ago
The whole site was actually coded in one night by a team of unsleeping, unwavering badgers. Nothing you are currently reading existed the day before.
9 years ago
Travis B.'s Proto-Søkkli Dictionary was the first dictionary on Anthologica to include more than 1000 words.
9 years ago
The first user on Anthologica registered on January 1st, 2014.
9 years ago
The square root of rope is string.
9 years ago
Anthologica's original name was the Atlas Universe Repository.
9 years ago
Trivial things are seldom worth promoting.
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The Aurbis is the mythic dream that the Godhead, Anu, retreated into after his lover, Nir, was killed by his brother, Padomay.
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Around half a million Akanans speak Jamna Kopiai natively, but more than twice that number have learned it second-hand because of its popularity in trade.
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It is believed that the infinite land of Ki Kuriku has a bottom, even though it has never been found.
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Reconstructions of Proto-Søkkli suggest that its verb system marks for every nominal in the sentence.
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The people of the city of Umam were ruled by the Malasami Dynasty until an insurrection by potters.
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Underneath your clothing, you are naked right now.
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Although Shapshiruckish defines ten unique numerals, larger numbers must be assembled through extensive repetition.
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The standard orthography of Shapshiruckish uses Roman numerals to represent its three reconstructed fricatives.
9 years ago
During the siege of Teršelai, the militia of the Ker Salanja held out for almost three months.
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The term "Samoyed" was originally a Russian word, a corrupted form of the ethnonym Saamod. Samoyed in Russian literally means "Self-Eating" and thus the term came to be considered pejorative, although this is not the original meaning, being a false etymology.
9 years ago
In Starway, humans' interstellar habitations are notorious for being very cramped and noisy. So much so that most other species may develop a psychosis from staying just a week aboard.
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The Tzuman Language is the major trading language of northern Šaol, spoken across all of Western Rašau and nearly all of Htelui, and usually widely understood in Eastern Rašau and parts of the Littoral as well.
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The early Anaşali city-state of Kitran first began moving towards becoming an empire when it amicably absorbed the northerly trading city of Saşém.
9 years ago
In Vana Gloria, personal names are considered so important that anyone with the same name is considered a "true" ancestor, which Vanans value over actual blood relations.
9 years ago
4373 of 2L's 4374 possible syllables have precisely one fundamental meaning.
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The god Derision nearly died trying to achieve divinity and was revived and granted the godhood by the mother goddess Mieril.
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The Tim Ar consider their language to have three main parts of speech—"rocks", "currents", and "debris".
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Traditionally, Netsilik Inuit hunters had five ways of finding a wife: 1. marriage arranged by parents at birth; 2. marriage arranged by parents in adulthood; 3. the two individuals decide on their own to marry; 4. a man kidnaps a woman he wants; 5. a man murders and replaces the husband of the woman he wants.
9 years ago
The ancient desert citadel of Shiffaract claims to have been founded as a fortress used to train a divine army against a terrible power in the north of Rašau.
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