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What's your favorite unbelievable fact? (reddthat.com)

submitted 1 day ago by POTOOOOOOOO@reddthat.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 16 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

There was this racehorse named Pot-8-Os who won over 25 races and went on to sire a horse empire of winners. His father was a legend himself named "Eclipse"

[–] POTOOOOOOOO@reddthat.com 20 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Also an unbelievable fact, you responded to user Potoooooooo about Potoooooooo the horse.

I really love this story about the horse.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 11 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

yesss.... coincidence.... hehee.... *runs away*

[–] POTOOOOOOOO@reddthat.com 11 points 15 hours ago

looks into rhe distance

I guess, I will never know the truth.

A single tear slides down OP's face

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 14 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Did you also know that one of the first motion pictures was shot to measure the gate of a race horse by Leland Stanford, who would go on to create Stanford University where the eugenics movement would get its legs and horse breeding theories of genetic prowess were applied to humans, and subsequently they would use the Stanford University as a test bed to breed umbermensch that would go on to inspire the Nazis? Yes this sounds insane but all of it is true. Also college football became a method to study human combat ability for the US military.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

camera → racehorse → leland → stanford → eugenics → nazis: There's a lot there
- camera → (developed for) → racehorse → (by) → leland: this I follow
- eugenics → (popular in european elites with racehorse breed overtones) → nazis : this I follow
- leland → (founded) → stanford : this I follow
- stanford → (created) → eugenics : this I tentatively follow, but missing the gap of an entire atlantic ocean

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 7 points 13 hours ago

You should read Palo Alto by Malcolm Harris