Post * x6vXw — Curious Curator

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TIL Congress wanted a 'Manhattan Project' for Military Artificial Intelligence back in 2020.

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e0rvg TIL that Bolton Strid, an innocuous stream in England, had killed every person who's ever fallen in - because it's actually a giant underground sideways river.

pm4O TIL VLC Media Player uses a traffic cone as it’s logo because the students who created the program had a traffic cone collection.

goK7 TIL in 1971, a woman petitioned a Judge for permission to sterilize her “somewhat retarded” daughter. Without a hearing, evidence, or representation for the daughter, the judge granted permission. The daughter later tried to sue the judge, but the Supreme Court voted 5-3 to grant the judge immunity.

B6Le TIL when the Bible was translated into American English, homosexuality was still considered a perverse disorder. It was with this mindset that the translators interpreted the Greek word ‘arsenkoitai’ for a homosexual, even though theologists have argued the word is way more likely to mean molester.

nemE7 TIL Gen. Franz Halder of the High Command warned Hitler of huge Soviet troop concentrations near Stalingrad and certain disaster, but Hitler criticized him for his defeatist mentality. Halder walked out of the meeting and never returned. Five months later, Germany was defeated at Stalingrad.