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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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 → 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
- camera → racehorse → leland → stanford → eugenics → nazis: There's a lot there
Also an unbelievable fact, you responded to user Potoooooooo about Potoooooooo the horse.
I really love this story about the horse.
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I guess, I will never know the truth.
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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.
The three gorges dam has had an actual effect on the rotation of the earth (slowing it down by 0.06 seconds)
The Allies avoided bombing specific factories in Nazi Germany in which US oligarchs owned equity.
I'm just going to leave this here
yes, but those same oligarchs were the one's funding the entire war effort at the time time, and - ohwaitnvm...
Consistency of an axiomatic system that contains arithmetic can be proven in this system if and only if it is inconsistent.
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.
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.
A few of my favorite fun facts are geography related.
The pacific side of the Panama canal is further east than the Atlantic side.
If you head south from Detroit the first foreign country you'll hit is Canada.
Lake Tahoe is further west than Los Angeles
Every eye has a tiny blind spot near the middle. But your brain makes it disappear and you don't realize it's there.
You can verify this. Draw a dot on a bit of paper. Close one eye, stare at a fixed point, now move the paper around the center until the dot disappears...magic
What we consider reality, is a synthesis our brain is presenting to us, it is an approximation.. realizing that is a real mind blower
Oh I thought my eyes were fucked. I look at a star in my periphery and it's there, I look at it directly and it's fucking gone.
This isn't due to the blind spot, but it is still pretty weird to experience! Here's some more info if you are curious: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Averted_vision
fun fact: the blind spot is because our optical sensors are installed backwards and that hole is so the optic nerve can pass back through the back of the eye to the brain. some other critters with independently evolved vision systems, such as cephalopods, avoided this particular evolutionary pitfall.
Another fun fact: through that hole there's also vasculature and capillaries coming through and you can actually see them by looking at a well lit white surface and creating a tiny pinhole with your hand right in front of your eye and wiggling it. Better explained here at around 5:30
What we consider reality, is a synthesis our brain is presenting to us, it is an approximation..
It's also a coordinated synthesis from all of your input senses (sight, hearing, smell, etc). It also explains why those who have a certain sense stunted (aka blindness, deaf, etc) report having all their other senses heightened. And it's up to the individual's brain to assemble those sensory inputs into a complete picture of the world around them, what we dub "reality." Which then brings into question the nature of common reality, and what defines it. Trippy shit.
If two moving balls hit each other and bounce apart, it’s the exact same thing as if you held the frame steady on one ball and viewed the other ball as moving faster. Just seems like the stationary ball gets heavier…
Perspective is everything.
This link is about the moon but it starts by covering how to view space and orbital objects including simulators which allow one to do what you describe, as well as the ability to move the camera from on ball to the other and many other interesting simulations. https://ciechanow.ski/moon/
This phenomenon is known as Galilean invariance (or Galilean relativity). Yep, as well as all the astronomical shit, the same Galileo was also the first to describe this.
If you travel due south from Detroit the first foreign country you will hit is Canada.
