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9YYAG Today I learned "CAPTCHA" is an acronym: "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart"
grjb TIL the first aircraft to be intentionally shot down by another aircraft went down on October 5, 1914, when the observer in one plane shot the pilot in another plane with a hand gun.
9bDM TIL that film scores were not originally done for artistic reasons, but to drown out the sound of the projector
4XGwb TIL Independent filmmakers fled New Jersey around 1915 to California, both for the advantageous climate and to get away from Thomas Edison's Motion Picture Patent Company, who's heavy handed demands included the use of Mob thugs to demand payments on cameras, projectors and the films themselves.
8ad8Z TIL that 5000 years ago people in what is now Scotland carved intricate baseball sized stone balls in varied shapes and we don't know why.