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Ow cute, curiosity of the day! "April 6th is the day in 1994 that the Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana
by laserbeam 4y ago
Ow cute, curiosity of the day!
"April 6th is the day in 1994 that the Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down."
There goes a bunch of happiness I had gathered today around me.
- haswell 4y agoThis is what hit me as well. To me, “a curiosity” is not just some fact about a historical event. And when many of the events are grim moments in history, the site quickly strays from the idea of curiosity and becomes just another random regurgitation of “on this day” content. To the authors: I think it’s an interesting idea, but would benefit from the ability to select categories of interest. I’m all about improving my knowledge of the world, and I’m willing to spend time doing that. But the acquisition of knowledge for the sake of it is a spending of time that I’ve started to ration intentionally due to the volume of information and noise in my life, and this site unfiltered seems a bit noisy.
- jeanmayer 4y agoThanks for the feedback. I'll definitely make another version of this site using AI to get the data (or maybe add this option to this site). It's easy to filter and get interesting data from chatGPT for example.