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TIL German man Oskar Speck kayaked from Germany to Australia over the period 1932-1939. On his arrival in Australia, shortly after the start of WWII, Speck was interned as an enemy foreigner. He remained in prisoner-of-war camps for the duration of the war, but stayed in the country after the war

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xxYw TIL of Anscombe’s Quartet, four datasets that reveal the folly of relying only on statistical analysis. The differences between the datasets is easily revealed by graphing the data, but they all have nearly identical properties (means, variances, correlations, linear regression).