What was the name of the supercomputer that beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997?
- • Colossus
- • HAL
- • Deep Blue
- • Merlin
November 24, 2025
Sections
On This Day
1963 - Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald live on national television.
Fact of the Day
Ford was the first American Company to give its workers both Saturday and Sunday off, in hopes that it would encourage more leisure use of automobiles, thus popularizing the idea of the “weekend.”
Nature Oddities
Instead of hissing when threatened, the Sonoran coral snake farts.
Food and Drink
Tomatoes were put on trial on June 28, 1820 in Salem, New Jersey. In front of a courthouse, Robert Johnson ate tomatoes in order to prove they weren’t poisonous. The crowd waited for him to die but he didn't. Before that, people thought tomatoes were poisonous, because they’re in the nightshade family.