Post * rLpe — Curious Curator

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TIL that a man named Laszlo Polgar developed a method to raise child prodigies. He wrote a book on it, married a language teacher, and they raised two of the 11 current female chess grandmasters in the world.

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yVxNv TIL the original Eeny, meeny, miny, moe was about slaves and included a racial slur and was used like it is today, the exact origin is debated. Overtime the slur was replaced with tiger to make it more acceptable.

R7jb1 TIL References to Glasgow-born Sir John A Macdonald, Canada's first prime minister, have recently been removed from Scotland.org sites. References to the Sir John A Great Canadian Kilt Skate, an ice skating event in Canada funded in part by the Scottish government, have also been removed

rN1Nd TIL that Genericide is the term for when the name of a distinctive product becomes the generic term for a general class of products (e.g. Jell-O used to describe all gelatin desserts)

QJX6X TIL White House Police officer Leslie Coffelt was fatally shot while protecting President Truman in an assassination attempt, but managed to kill his attacker with a headshot from 30 feet away before dying.

ANm5B TIL that the Turing Test is a test that can determine when technology has become indistinguishable from real humans, and ChatGPT 4.5 beat it 73% of the time.