Pigeons love Picasso. First forward pass thrown in football. Singapore hates chewing gum.

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Hi, I'm Jeff and thanks for
joining us on Let's Wing You a Bear.

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It is a companion podcast of the
history and Factoids about Today podcast.

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Now, we're not here to save
the world. We're here to literally help

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you win a bear or help you
win a conversation. Stalls or turn south

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and you have nothing to talk about. All right, let's get to it.

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So do you think the pigeons could
be trained to tell the difference in

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types of art? Well, Japanese
scientists were able to do just that.

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Now they train the pigeons by showing
them pictures and videos of Monet and Piasto

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paintings. Now one group of pigeons
they got food if they pecked on the

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switch when they were showing in Piasto
painting. The other one was Monet.

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Now each group was able to achieve
a ninety percent accuracy rate on the artists

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that they were supposed to be picking
out. Now it didn't even matter if

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the pictures were in black and white
or if they were in color. Yeah,

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the pigeons, they just were able
to distinguish this artists that was theirs.

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Then the two groups the pigeons were
shown Picasso and Monet paintings side by

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side now both groups. Yeah,
still ninety percent accuracy rating. And if

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you're wondering, yeah, that's higher
than humans. Now to take it even

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a step farther that they wanted to
see it, the pigeons could really tell

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a difference in style of art.
So Monet he was actually an impressionist.

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So although they could tell Money's paintings
when they turned it upside down, yeah,

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they couldn't identify Monet. But Picasso, now he's not really an abstract

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artist. He's more of a cubist
with abstract in it. But the pigeons

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could identify Piasto paintings when it was
turned upside down. Now, if you

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don't want to use that little factoy
to win a beer, you can use

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it to shame a friend who brags
about teaching his dog a new trick.

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It is football season, so let's
talk about the forward pass, or more

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specifically, the first forward pass.
In the late eighteen hundred's, much like

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rugby, forward passing and football was
illegal. It had been used illegally a

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few times, but by the early
nineteen hundreds, football had become a really

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blood the dangerous game. The defense
they would just tee off on whoever had

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the ball, and just kill him. Then in nineteen oh five, nineteen

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college football players were killed and one
hundred and fifty nine were seriously injured.

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So even the United States President Teddy
Roosevelt, whose son was playing football at

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Harvard, was talking about Autlan football. So in order to keep football,

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you know, legal, they came
up the idea about passing the ball.

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They thought that might slow the defense
is down a little bit, you know,

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try something. So on September fifth, nineteen oh six, Saint Louis

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University was playing Carroll College from Wisconsin, and Saint Louis quarterback Brad Burry Robinson

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through the very first legal forward pass
in American football history. It fell incomplete.

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Well that meant it was a turnover
and Carroll College got the ball.

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That was the rules back then.
Now, later in the game, Robinson

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he threw the ball to Jack Snyder
for a twenty year touchdown pass. Football

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would never be the same again.
Give me back my freedom, let me

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live this line and drive see home
and and honey one would give she a

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solready alrighty day, stupid law,
Let's land in Singapore. In Singapore,

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Yes, chewing gum is banned in
Singapore. They have become not quite so

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strict lately. They will allow medical
gum, you know, for like nicotine

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gum to help quit smoking, or
dental gum to help with dental problems.

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But normal chewing gum. No,
it had cost you one thousand dollars for

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your first offense, two thousand dollars
for your second offense, plus community surface.

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I'm sure it keeps the streets cleaner. But the main reason Singapore did

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it is they invested six billion dollars
in the rapid transit train system that had

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smooth and really rapid trains, stated
art, all that kind of stuff.

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Well, the door sensors on the
train cars they started being vandalized by people

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putting chewing gum on them, so
the doors couldn't operate properly, and that

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caused the entire system and just crash
and dis reupted the whole train service.

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So nineteen ninety two, Singapore they
just outlocked gum altogether. Well, thank

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