Template:Are You Sure/April 22

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2015: New study of the Toledo giant red ball incident blames the color red: "Of all of the colors visible to optotypical humans, red is the most likely to spontaneously generate artificial intelligence, which can quickly manifest itself as breaking away and rolling down the street."

• ... that British cryptographer and intelligence officer Sir Edward Wilfred Harry Travis (1888–1956) became the operational head of Bletchley Park during World War II, and that Travis was later the head of GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters), an intelligence and security organisation responsible for providing signals intelligence and information assurance to the government and armed forces of the United Kingdom?

• ... that nuclear physicist Denys Wilkinson (1922–2016) applied concepts from physics to the study of bird navigation?

• ... that astronomer, academic, and inventor Wilhelm Schickard (1592–1635) designed a mechanical adding machine which sounds an audible warning when an output is too large for the available dials?