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25 random things about map magazine:

1. map celebrates its 10th birthday in September.
2. map magazine distributes 40,000 copies every month.
3. The map office meeting table also doubles as a ping-pong table.
4. Carl Lindgren, map magazine's managing editor, is the current office ping-pong champ.
5. The map team is composed of 1 Capricorn, 1 Aquarian, 1 Aries, 2 Leos, 2 Virgos, 2 Librans, 1 Scorpio and 1 Sagittarian.
6. A video montage featuring 5 map staff members dancing to MC Hammer's 'U Can't Touch This', may or may not exist ...
7. The average age in the office is 29.4.
8. If you knock on the door to the map office, entering from 'Remember to Dream Park', we'll make you a fresh espresso (and perhaps challenge you to a game of ping pong).
9. Walk through the park on a Tuesday and you'll find 10 metres of inspirational quotes written along the footpath.
10. map magazine is a proud media partner of the Institute of Modern Art, the Brisbane Powerhouse and the Queensland Theatre Company.
11. We are the world we imagine ...
12. map magazine has interviewed more than 600 local, national and international people.
13. Actor Morgan Freeman once called Carl at home.
14. map magazine has two foster animals – an elephant named Sinya and a rhinoceros named Maxwell.
15. Currently, the music on most frequent rotation in the map office is MGMT, The Presets, Daft Punk, Kanye West, Dean Martin, Amy Winehouse, Motown 50 (best of Motown classics), Vampire Weekend, The Grates and The Thriller Anniversary Album.
16. The theme from Baywatch gets a little more airtime in the map office than it should.
17. You can follow map on Twitter at http://twitter.com/mapbrisbane.
18. map magazine is a carbon-neutral business.
19. We covet www.ted.com.
20. map's World Vision sponsor children are named Modestor and Narboth. We have sponsored them for nine years.
21. There are no left-handed people in the map office.
22. One map staff member has appeared several times on Neighbours.
23. 46% of people in the map office drink soy coffees.
24. 19% don't drink coffee at all.
25. Remember to dream.