{"id":286284,"date":"2026-06-17T08:46:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=286284"},"modified":"2026-06-17T08:46:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:46:23","slug":"two-nuns-who-left-a-brazilian-convent-are-now-married","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2026\/06\/17\/two-nuns-who-left-a-brazilian-convent-are-now-married\/","title":{"rendered":"Two nuns who left a Brazilian convent are now married"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Franc\u00edlia Costa and Luiza Silv\u00e9rio first met in a convent in Brazil back in 2019. Costa had been raised by deeply religious grandparents and was encouraged to join the convent, while Silv\u00e9rio joined as a teenager while searching for purpose. The pair initially didn\u2019t like each other, with Silv\u00e9rio admitting that she thought Costa was \u201can unbearable and stuck-up little nun.\u201d Costa shared that she also didn\u2019t like Silv\u00e9rio. Proximity made the heart grow fonder in this case, and the pair gradually became close friends. However, they each struggled with their mental health while living in the convent. Together, Costa and Silv\u00e9rio made the decision to leave the convent in 2020 for their mental health. Neither could afford to live alone and so continued to live together. Then, one night in 2023, Costa realised her true feelings for her friend. She admitted her feelings to Silv\u00e9rio, who kissed her in return. The couple are now married. (via The Pink News<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An anonymous group posted code-breaking puzzles online and then suddenly disappeared<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Cicada 3301 is the name of three sets of puzzles posted under the name ‘3301’ online between 2012 and 2014. The first appeared on 4chan on January 4, 2012, and ran for nearly a month; a second came in 2013, and a third in 2014. The third puzzle remains unsolved. The stated aim was to recruit “intelligent individuals.” The puzzles focused heavily on data security, cryptography, steganography, and Internet anonymity. One has been called “the most elaborate and mysterious puzzle of the Internet age,” and The Washington Post<\/em> listed it among the “top 5 eeriest, unsolved mysteries of the Internet.” Many have speculated that the puzzles were a recruiting tool for the NSA, CIA, MI6, or Mossad. Cicada 3301’s last verified message came in April 2017. (via Boing Boing<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why is a famous New York basketball team named after pants?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Most professional sports teams have nicknames, and usually, those nicknames are a reference to the team\u2019s history or that of their city. But when it comes to the New York Knicks, there\u2019s more confusion than typical. \u201cKnicks\u201d is short for \u201cKnickerbocker,\u201d which was a style of baggy, rolled up pants worn in New York and elsewhere. Early European settlers of the area now known as New York City were predominantly Dutch; they even called the region \u201cNew Netherland.\u201d That influence became central to the writing of famed American author Washington Irving. In 1809, Irving published a novel titled \u201cA History of New York: From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty<\/em>,\u201d a satire of the local politics of his time. But he adopted a pseudonym and a fake identity \u2014 a historian named Diedrich Knickerbocker. Knickerbocker became a New York City icon, and because he was a Dutchman, many aspects of his Dutch identity became associated with New York itself. His style of trousers, for example, became known as \u201cknickerbockers\u201d or \u201cknickers.\u201d (via Now I Know<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Scientists have discovered a whale graveyard with skeletons dating back millions of years<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Chinese scientists have discovered the largest whale \u201cgraveyard\u201d ever found. It contains nearly 500 whale skeletons all collected by chance and spreads across 750 miles of seafloor and five million years of evolutionary history. The discovery is centered on the Diamantina Fracture Zone, which travels west from the southwesternmost tip of Australia into the Indian Ocean along a rift valley that formed some 50 million years ago, when the Down Under continent split from Antarctica.In early 2023 Chinese scientists used a crewed submersible vehicle to scout along the fracture and spotted what they quickly realized was a whale fossil at some 23,000 feet (7,000 meters) below the surface. Over the course of some 30 additional dives, the researchers discovered an incredible array of whale remains, as well as traces of the animals\u2019 activity. (via Scientific American<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This German subway entrance looks like a streetcar smashed into the pavement<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Imagine a scene in a Marvel film in which the Hulk has picked up a tram car and rammed it front-first into the sidewalk. That\u2019s kind of what the entrance to the Bockenheimer Warte subway station looks like. The station entrance was the idea of the architect Zbigniew Peter Pininski. At the time, locals were concerned about the expansion of the city\u2019s transport network, and any new construction was being fiercely debated and frequently opposed. Pininski, therefore, decided to design something that might bring a smile to the faces of the frowning Frankfurters. Inspired by the work of the Belgian surrealist artist Ren\u00e9 Magritte, Pininski designed a subway entrance that looked like an old tram car rammed into the sidewalk. Local authorities gave the green light to his whimsical (and, arguably, slightly dark) design, and it was completed in 1986 along with the B and C levels of the subway station. (via Atlas Obscura<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This might be soccer’s funniest red card ever<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Acknowledgements<\/strong>: I find a lot of these links myself, but I also get some from other places that I rely on as “serendipity engines,” such as\u00a0<\/em><\/em>The Morning News<\/em><\/a>\u00a0from Rosecrans Baldwin and Andrew Womack, Jodi Ettenberg’s\u00a0<\/em><\/em>Curious About Everything<\/em><\/a>, Dan Lewis’s\u00a0<\/em><\/em>Now I Know<\/em><\/a>, Robert Cottrell and Caroline Crampton’s\u00a0<\/em><\/em>The Browser<\/em><\/a>, Clive Thompson’s\u00a0<\/em><\/em>Linkfest<\/em><\/a> and <\/em><\/em>Why Is This Interesting<\/em><\/a> by Noah Brier and Colin Nagy<\/em><\/em>.\u00a0If you come across something you think should be included here, feel free to\u00a0email me at mathew @ mathewingram dot com<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

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Franc\u00edlia Costa and Luiza Silv\u00e9rio first met in a convent in Brazil back in 2019. Costa had been raised by deeply religious grandparents and was encouraged to join the convent, while Silv\u00e9rio joined as a teenager while searching for purpose. The pair initially didn\u2019t like each other, with Silv\u00e9rio admitting that she thought Costa was … <\/p>\n

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