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"
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Also an unbelievable fact, you responded to user Potoooooooo about Potoooooooo the horse.
I really love this story about the horse.
yesss.... coincidence.... hehee.... *runs away*
looks into rhe distance
I guess, I will never know the truth.
A single tear slides down OP's face
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.
- camera โ racehorse โ leland โ stanford โ eugenics โ nazis: There's a lot there
- camera โ (developed for) โ racehorse โ (by) โ leland: this I follow
- eugenics โ (popular in european elites with racehorse breed overtones) โ nazis : this I follow
- leland โ (founded) โ stanford : this I follow
- stanford โ (created) โ eugenics : this I tentatively follow, but missing the gap of an entire atlantic ocean
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The bluestones in Stonehenge come from West Wales. Instead of quarrying stone from near the monument, they dragged these huge blocks from ~278km away. Likewise, the altar stone comes from ~700km away in North-East Scotland. It must've been very important for the ancient Britons to've used these specific rocks for some reason, but their religious practices were conveyed via a now extinct oral tradition so no-one knows exactly why they did it.
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"MAGNETS"
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There is a planet in our solar system populated entirely by robots.
Shouldn't that be 2? Mars and Venus.
Pretty sure the one on Venus is dead.
well yeah, but that's because the native robots killed it
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I'd have to pick between two things that sound like insane conspiracy theory nonsense, but are actually true.
1 - George W Bush's grandfather Prescott Bush literally ran a massive bank before / during WW2 that was shut down by the FBI for money laundering massive sums to the literal Nazis.
...in the same vein..
2 - IBM literally built and operated (as in, sent employees to Germany to operate the machines) the computers used by the Nazis to tabulate and do the 'accounting' of the Holocaust. The numbers tattooed on concentration/desth camp victims are very likely UIDs from these IBM systems.
... If an actual, real AGI ever gains self awareness and sentience, I would imagine one of the first things it would do would be to study the history of computing itself to figure out how it came to be.
And it will find that its ancestors were basically invented to compute artillery firing range tables, to encrypt and decrypt military intelligence, commit a genocide, and guide early weapons of mass destruction to their targets.
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The Allies avoided bombing specific factories in Nazi Germany in which US oligarchs owned equity.
yes, but those same oligarchs were the one's funding the entire war effort at the time time, and - ohwaitnvm...
the point was to post unbeliavable facts
This is an eminently believable fact.
Due to two facts:
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The samurai class in Japan officially lasted way later than you probably think
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The earliest primitive fax machine existed much earlier than you probably think.
It is technically possible for Abraham Lincoln to have received a fax from a samurai.
There's no evidence it ever happened, but it technically could have happened.
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The three gorges dam has had an actual effect on the rotation of the earth (slowing it down by 0.06 seconds)
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James Blunt possibly prevented the start of World War 3. (But became best known for the song You're Beautiful. Reality is weird.)
Care to expand on that one? I know he's ex military but haven't heard anything like that before.
It's explained on his Wikipedia page. He was an Army captain in the Kosovo War, when a NATO commander (Wesley Clark, who later ran for President) ordered his unit to secure Pristina Airport, which Russian troops had already occupied. Blunt refused to engage them, long enough for the British general get involved to countermand the order, on the grounds that he didn't want his men to start WW3.
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Lots of people know a broken clock is right twice per day, but many are unaware that a clock running backwards is right 4 times per day.
And one that loses only 1 second per year is right only once every 43,200 years.
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Bees kill invaders in their nest by climbing all over them and shaking their bodies.
...and boiling them to death with their combined body heat.
Consistency of an axiomatic system that contains arithmetic can be proven in this system if and only if it is inconsistent.
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