Post * a8mo9 — Curious Curator

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TIL that the 1977 Atari 2600 beat ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot at a game of chess

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Z8d7D TIL "Bir Tawil" is one of the few places on Earth not claimed by any country. An American trekked there and claimed it in 2014 as the Kingdom of North Sudan so he could make his daughter a princess.

jNnGR TIL about the moon landing’s ‘Human Computers’. Who were a group of women, who held math and science degrees, and were responsible for managing the moon landing’s incredibly complex calculations. They also did it real-time, by written hand, and were faster than any technology available before 1970.

kOBRg TIL Aleksandr Karelin has a wrestling record of 887 wins and 2 losses. He went 13 years undefeated in international competition and six years without giving up a point.

M7kVm TIL that a Swedish woman found her missing wedding ring, lost in 1995, wrapped around a carrot which she picked from her garden in 2012.

Qo5k TIL that Southern sweet tea was originally used to show wealth, as tea, ice, and sugar were all very expensive at the time.