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Cambridge Computer IDs World's Most Boring Day

Posted by samzenpus on from the because-they-can dept.

smitty777 writes "Scientists hard at work at Cambridge used a computer algorithm and nearly 300 million historical facts to identify the most boring day in history. The winner? On April 11, 1954, absolutely nothing happened. That is, unless you count the most boring day in the world happening."

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  1. Re:I can say now: faulty by santax · · Score: -1, Redundant

    My response seems to have vanished. So here it is again. It is not for you to decide what is interesting to me. Maybe that very day, Einstein came up with something new. Maybe a great genius was being made that day, it would just take another 9 month before birth. Maybe some government was making up plans for a coupe somewhere that very day. The dataset is lacking. So its an absurd claim. And they know that too. They are gonna use the software to improve internetsearch. And for that it may be valuable. But for this crazy conclusion... neh, faulty by default.