This is a classic but I had to make sure it was in this community.

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AI at it again eh?

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No actually! This joke was originally posted on Quora in like 2017? I think?

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Somebody’s been salting the training data. Accidentally or on purpose, it doesn’t really matter lol

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no, this is a result from Quora.

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fun fact: jogging as an acriviry was said to have been invented by Jeremy Bentham, the famed philosopher who’s had his body stuffed and preserved at University College London.

he apparently called it “post-prandial circumgyration”.

(thanks, the unbelievable truth.)

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This is a myth. Running was invented by Nike in the 90’s to sell more shoes.

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The original marathon runner Pheidippides was actually speed walking to Athens.

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This is a myth too. All of human history was invented in 2020 to make people think a time before covid19 existed

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This is a myth too. The entirety of the universe was created last Thursday, we just think it’s older than that because it was created specifically to look older.

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This seems plausible.

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