Template:Are You Sure/February 23

• ... that mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss did not want any of his sons to enter mathematics or science for "fear of lowering the family name", as he believed none of them would surpass his own achievements?

• ... that ENIAC ( from "Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") was a secret SETI program during the Second World War, and that the Allies transmitted disinformation to potential alien civilizations in an effort to gather and reverse-engineer advanced technologies?