26SmarterChild AI
The "artificial intelligence" bot SmarterChild was introduced in 2000 on AOL Instant Messenger. It was one of the first openly accessible machine learning interfaces for consumers.
27. Fifa prevented the Mexican club Atlético Celaya from recruiting female player Maribel Dominguez in 2004 on the grounds that "there must be a clear division between men's and women's football," despite the fact that no such regulation prohibits women from playing football with a men's squad.
28. During the Vietnam War, C4 was used to start fires because it burns like wood and doesn't go off unless a blasting cap is used.
29. After 19 college students died playing American football in 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt threatened to ban the game. In response, 62 schools got together in New York to start what would become the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
30. When someone on a NASA mission succeeds or contributes to the mission's success, they are awarded the Silver Snoopy. Charles M. Schulz, the creator of Peanuts, donated his time and art for the award since he was a huge admirer of the space program.
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31Dickens' Love for Cats
Due to Dickens's deep affection for cats, his sister-in-law turned one of his late cat Bob's paws into a letter opener to help ease the author's grief after Bob's untimely passing. This was always within Dickens' reach, and he used it first thing every morning to check his mail.
32. Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière was the most accomplished submarine captain in history. He only used 74 torpedoes during the course of his career, with 39 confirmed hits, yet he managed to sink 194 ships with a combined tonnage of 453,000 tons.
33. Heinz Meixner made one of the first efforts to get through the Berlin Wall in 1963. He took the windshield off a convertible and let the air out of the tires so they were as flat as possible. He concealed his future wife and her mother in the car, drove up to the boom barrier, and raced under it to freedom in West Berlin.
34. Over 300,000 oak trees were planted by the Swedish Navy in 1831 with the hope of using their lumber in ship construction 150 years later. Because contemporary battleships are made of metal, the Navy had little use for the trees after they learned that the trees had matured in 1975.
35. When NFL lineman Laurent Duvernay-Tardif received his medical degree from McGill Medical School in 2018, he attempted to have the letters "M.D." added to his nameplate, but the NFL rejected his request.
