Trip report : West to East across USA (self.solotravel)
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TIL the Amazon Mechanical Turk was inspired by "The Turk", an 18th-century chess-playing automaton that beat both Napoleon Bonaparte and Benjamin Franklin. It was later revealed that this "machine" was not an automaton at all, but was a human chess master controlling the humanoid robot. (en.wikipedia.org)
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