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Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology calculated that the human brain can process images in as LITLE as 13 milliseconds.
#TEDGames #TEDTumblewordsEvidently, it takes much longer than that to recognize typos.
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A single Bitcoin transaction uses enough electricity to power the average U.S. household for more than a month.
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In 1897, the Indiana state legislature nearly passed a bill defining π (pi) as exactly 3.2, which would have been a mathematical disaster.
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The Keret House, located in Warsaw, Poland, is one of the narrowest houses in the world. It measures 122 centimeters (48 inches) at its widest point.
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The first webcam was created at the University of Cambridge in 1991 to monitor a coffee pot.
#TEDGames #TEDTumblewordsI believe that may have been the "Trojan Room coffee machine". I remember that.
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The patent for insulin was sold to the University of Toronto for just $3. The drug's inventors wanted to ensure that it would remain affordable.
#TEDGames #TEDTumblewordsThat's where it started. How's it going now?
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The Harry Potter series has sold over 600 million copies worldwide, making it the best-selling book series in history.
#TEDGames #TEDTumblewordsDespite its popularity & epic qualities, the Harry Potter series has become "The Books Which Must Not Be Read", because the author, #JKRowling, has come out of the closet as a homophobic, transphobic, bigotted monster.
Seriously, although it pains me to say, do NOT BUY Harry Potter books, videos, or merchandise. Defund Rowling.
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Another word not known to #TEDTumblewords, "boolean".
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Art was part of the Olympic Games from 1912 to 1948, with competitions in architecture, literature, sculpture, music, and painting
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"The right to repair needs to extend to artificial intelligence." — Rumman Chowdhury
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In 1969, a group of journalists wrote a deliberately terrible book to parody sleazy bestsellers. "Naked Came the Stranger" became a bestseller as well.
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In Japan, the cartoon "Bob The Builder" was edited to give characters a fifth finger to avoid accidental associations with the Japanese Mafia.
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Jar Jar Binks was the first major character in a live action film to be completely computer-generated, in "Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace" (1999).
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The 1908 French film Fantasmagorie is considered the first animated cartoon. Less than two minutes long, it took cartoonist Émile Cohl several months to create.
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Conman Victor Lustig "sold" the Eiffel Tower for scrap metal in a scam not once, but twice. The buyers were too embarrassed to report him.
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William Shakespeare is credited with introducing almost 2,000 words to the English language, including "downstairs," "lonely," and "obscene."
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The largest known organism is an Armillaria ostoyae mushroom. Known as the "humongous fungus," it covers over 2,385 acres in Oregon's Malheur National Forest.
#TEDGames #TEDTumblewordsImagine how many pizzas could be covered with all that…
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Inspired by the communicator devices from "Star Trek," the 1996 StarTAC by Motorola was the first flip phone ever made, revolutionizing mobile phone design.
#TEDGames #TEDTumblewordsI had one of those phones back then. My managers at #UMich gave me one to use whenever I was on call for our X.500 directory and email forwarding service.
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When the Mona Lisa was stolen in 1911, Pablo Picasso was among those initially arrested as suspects.
#TEDGames #TEDTumblewordsOf course, he had been framed.
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The first newspaper in the world was the "Acta Diurna" (Daily Events), created in Ancient Rome around 59 BC.
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Honoré de Balzac, the French novelist and playwright, allegedly drank up to 50 cups of coffee a day.
#TEDGames #TEDTumblewordsThat was probably strong espresso, not the weaker American style. Talk about #highlyCaffeinated!
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Papua New Guinea is the most linguistically diverse country in the world, with over 800 languages spoken — roughly 12% of the world’s total languages!
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Daily Quote - February 05, 2025
The number one abuse of human rights on Earth is the mistreatment of women and girls.
Jimmy Carter
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The world's first modern assembly line was implemented by Ransom Olds in 1901, before Henry Ford's famous adoption of the method.
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#TEDGames #TEDTumblewordsThis was frustrating. After the first couple of words, I found "EXCLUDING", but I could never get the letters in the right order with the limited number of moves.
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