TIL that if each move took one second, a 64 disk Tower of Hanoi would take around 585 billion years to complete
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Maths Careers
Tower of Hanoi
The Tower of Hanoi problem was first posed in 1883. Learn about how to calculate the minimum moves required to complete the Tower of Hanoi problem
TIL that since 1976, the New York Yankees have maintained a strict appearance policy that states: “All players, coaches and male executives are forbidden to display any facial hair other than mustaches, and scalp hair may not be grown below the collar. Long sideburns and muttonchops are not banned.”
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Crown Shaving Co
Legends of the Follicle: The New York Yankees Are Always Impeccably Groomed, And Why It Matters — Crown Shaving Co
Beards and long hair are forbidden on baseball’s best team. Here’s why that gives them an edge.
TIL That C4 is relatively stable unless detonated by a blasting cap, meaning it was used as an improvised fire starter in the Vietnam war, where it simply burned like a piece of wood.
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Submitted December 18, 2022 at 01:58AM by ironwolf6464
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HowStuffWorks
How C-4 Works
C-4 is in the news quite a bit these days -- it's a powerful explosive that's used in terrorist attacks all over the world. Find out what C-4 explosive is and what it can do.
TIL Neptune has only made one rotation around the sun since its discovery in 1846
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Submitted December 18, 2022 at 01:39AM by MorsesTheHorse
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NASA Solar System Exploration
Neptune
Dark, cold and whipped by supersonic winds, ice giant Neptune is the eighth and most distant planet in our solar system. Neptune is the only planet in our solar system not visible to the naked eye.
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TIL over 20 years ago AOL Instant Messenger had a "AI" bot called Smarterchild. One of the first consumer facing machine learning interfaces that was publicly available!
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Submitted December 18, 2022 at 02:17AM by mang3lo
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Vice
A History of SmarterChild
Remembering the chatbot that was my introduction to artificial intelligence.
TIL researchers have grown brain cells in a lab that have learned to play the 1970s tennis-like video game Pong
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Submitted December 18, 2022 at 03:24AM by Malvicioalavena
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BBC News
Lab-grown brain cells play video game Pong
Australian and UK researchers grow brain cells in a lab that have learned to play a 1970s video game.
TIL Robert Wardhaugh, a dungeon master for D&D has the longest, continuously running Dungeons and Dragons campaign at 40 years, since 1982. Over 500 characters have come and gone, 50 dynasties, and a collection of over 30,000 hand painted miniatures and landscapes at his disposal.
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PC Gamer
This D&D campaign has been running for 40 years
Robert Wardhaugh ran his first game of Dungeons & Dragons as a teenager in 1982, and hasn't stopped.
TIL a civilian sued the U.S. government after he was kidnapped, beaten, and tortured for 28 hours as part of a military exercise
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Los Angeles Times
Civilian Sues U.S., Says He Was Beaten, Kidnaped in Exercise
A civilian security officer at the Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station is suing the federal government for more than $6 million for an incident in which he was allegedly kidnaped and beaten during an exercise designed to test response to a terrorist attack.
TIL that the first vending machine dates back to first century Roman Egypt, which dispensed holy water. When you inserted a coin, it triggered a lever which opened a valve to let out the water.
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Wikipedia
Vending machine
machine which automatically dispenses products to customers after payment
TIL There are only two confirmed cases of a Kangaroo fatally attacking a person: attacking a hunter in 1936 and a 77 year old woman in 2022. In contrast Lulu, a pet kangaroo, saved a farmers life by alerting the farmers family after a tree fell upon him in 2003.
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Kangaroo
common name for some marsupials indigenous to Australia in the family Macropodidae
TIL Dachshund (sausage dogs) were specifically bred to hunt European badgers and spent hours underground, facing the badger straight on and dragging it out by the face.
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American Kennel Club
Dachshund History: The Badger Dog's Fascinating Past – American Kennel Club
You may be surprised by this Dachshund history. Find out why the "weiner dog" has such a long and low body plus much more.
TIL Majel Roddenberry, voice of the computer on most of the Star Trek TV series', was also the real-life industrial computer voice on railroad automatic hot journal-box detectors in the Western USA. There are a few places where her computer voice still announces axle overheat on railroad lines.
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Wikipedia
Majel Barrett
American actress and producer (1932-2008)
TIL Papyrus 115 (which is the oldest preserved manunoscript of the Revelation as of 2017), give the number of the beast as χιϛ, 616 and not 666.
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Number of the beast
The number of the beast (Koinē Greek: Ἀριθμὸς τοῦ θηρίου, Arithmós toû thēríou) is associated with the Beast of Revelation in chapter 13, verse 18 of the Book of Revelation. In most manunoscripts of the New Testament and in English translations of the Bible…
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TIL that Mozart was not actually buried in a mass grave. The term 'common grave' in Vienna meant a grave for a non-aristocrat, which the city was permitted to dig back up after a decade and reuse.
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Wikipedia
Death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1791 death of Austrian composer Mozart
TIL The home port for the game "NBA Jam" was going to have an unlockable Mortal Kombat themed court called the "Kombat Kourt." The NBA said no to this as it included such things as the court being surrounded by lava and a severed human head as the ball.
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Destructoid
Hidden Mortal Kombat 'Kourt' for NBA Jam unearthed
As it stands, Midway’s arcade basketball noscripts NBA Jam and NBA Hangtime didn’t need much help appealing even to fans...
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TIL 75% of the cars that Rolls Royce has ever produced are still on the road.
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7Ble.com
75% of cars that Rolls Royce has ever produced are still on the road.
One of Rolls-Royce’s stories is that three-quarters of the cars the company has ever produced are still on the road. The key to success in the luxury market, explains Mr Müller-Ötvös, is that customers want to be able to tell their friends, family and business…
TIL that despite no written rule banning elite women from playing football with a men's team, in 2004, Fifa stopped Mexican club Atlético Celaya from signing female player Maribel Dominguez, stating that “there must be a clear separation between men's and women's football.”
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WIRED UK
Why are elite female footballers barred from playing with men?
The case of Canadian footballer Stephanie Labbé raises the question of why football is segregated by gender
TIL that under Writers Guild of America rules the phrases "written by", "story by", "screen story by" and "screenplay by" all have different, and precise, meanings.
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Screen Credits Manual
Welcome to the credit determination process. If you are reading this Screen Credits Manual, chances are you are about to be involved in a credit arbitration.
TIL: Chechen is a language that originally used an Arabic noscript, then Latin, and finally Cyrillic starting in 1938. Despite being written in Cyrillic, it maintains the sounds and pronunciations of Arabic.
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Submitted December 18, 2022 at 10:22PM by No_Emotion8018
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TIL in 1993, Czechoslovakia split into two countries, Czech Republic and Slovakia. It was the only (mostly) non-violent split of an ex-Eastern Bloc nation. So peaceful it was called the "Velvet Divorce"
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Submitted December 19, 2022 at 12:48AM by Specialist_Check
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Wikipedia
Dissolution of Czechoslovakia
process that led to the creation of two independent nations, the Czech Republic and Slovakia
TIL in 2017, a woman named Chau Smith ran seven marathons in seven consecutive days on seven continents in celebration of her 70th birthday.
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Submitted December 19, 2022 at 04:22AM by Canes-Venaticii
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NBC News
Meet the 70-year-old runner who ran 7 marathons on 7 continents in 7 days
Chau Smith celebrated her 70th birthday by running seven marathons on seven continents in seven consecutive days - all while wearing a pink pussyhat.