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

0:15 Hi, I'm Jeff and thanks for joining us on Let's Wing You a Bear. It is a companion podcast of the history and Factoids about Today podcast. Now, we're not here to save the world. We're here to literally help you win a bear or help you win a conversation. Stalls or turn south and you have nothing to talk about. All right, let's get to it. So do you think the pigeons could be trained to tell the difference in types of art? Well, Japanese scientists were able to do just that. Now they train the pigeons by showing them pictures and videos of Monet and Piasto paintings. Now one group of pigeons they got food if they pecked on the switch when they were showing in Piasto painting. The other one was Monet. Now each group was able to achieve a ninety percent accuracy rate on the artists that they were supposed to be picking out. Now it didn't even matter if the pictures were in black and white or if they were in color. Yeah, the pigeons, they just were able to distinguish this artists that was theirs.

1:03 Then the two groups the pigeons were shown Picasso and Monet paintings side by side now both groups. Yeah, still ninety percent accuracy rating. And if you're wondering, yeah, that's higher than humans. Now to take it even a step farther that they wanted to see it, the pigeons could really tell a difference in style of art. So Monet he was actually an impressionist. So although they could tell Money's paintings when they turned it upside down, yeah, they couldn't identify Monet. But Picasso, now he's not really an abstract artist. He's more of a cubist with abstract in it. But the pigeons could identify Piasto paintings when it was turned upside down. Now, if you don't want to use that little factoy to win a beer, you can use it to shame a friend who brags about teaching his dog a new trick. It is football season, so let's talk about the forward pass, or more specifically, the first forward pass. In the late eighteen hundred's, much like rugby, forward passing and football was illegal. It had been used illegally a few times, but by the early nineteen hundreds, football had become a really blood the dangerous game. The defense they would just tee off on whoever had the ball, and just kill him. Then in nineteen oh five, nineteen college football players were killed and one hundred and fifty nine were seriously injured.

2:09 So even the United States President Teddy Roosevelt, whose son was playing football at Harvard, was talking about Autlan football. So in order to keep football, you know, legal, they came up the idea about passing the ball. They thought that might slow the defense is down a little bit, you know, try something. So on September fifth, nineteen oh six, Saint Louis University was playing Carroll College from Wisconsin, and Saint Louis quarterback Brad Burry Robinson through the very first legal forward pass in American football history. It fell incomplete. Well that meant it was a turnover and Carroll College got the ball. That was the rules back then. Now, later in the game, Robinson he threw the ball to Jack Snyder for a twenty year touchdown pass. Football would never be the same again. Give me back my freedom, let me live this line and drive see home and and honey one would give she a solready alrighty day, stupid law, Let's land in Singapore. In Singapore, Yes, chewing gum is banned in Singapore. They have become not quite so strict lately. They will allow medical gum, you know, for like nicotine gum to help quit smoking, or dental gum to help with dental problems.

3:22 But normal chewing gum. No, it had cost you one thousand dollars for your first offense, two thousand dollars for your second offense, plus community surface. I'm sure it keeps the streets cleaner. But the main reason Singapore did it is they invested six billion dollars in the rapid transit train system that had smooth and really rapid trains, stated art, all that kind of stuff. Well, the door sensors on the train cars they started being vandalized by people putting chewing gum on them, so the doors couldn't operate properly, and that caused the entire system and just crash and dis reupted the whole train service. So nineteen ninety two, Singapore they just outlocked gum altogether. Well, thank you for being here today. Get to follow us on whoever you're listening to us on. We're on everybody now. You can always see what we're doing over at coolmedia dot com. That's cool. Three US check out our podcast, cool Cast and the radio station. Don't forget to check out the history.

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