In the 1640's the Dutch inhabitants of New Amsterdam built a wall to protect themselves. In 1664 the British ignored the wall and took New Amsterdam by sea. The city is now called New York and the area of the wall is now called Wall Street. Source: https://t.co/NKDG95DLLHpic.twitter.com/aUeOZp8tHl
In 1939, George Dantzig, a graduate student at UC Berkeley, solved two open problems in statistical theory, which he had mistaken for homework after arriving late to a lecture by Jerzy Neyman. The two problems ended up being his entire PhD thesis. pic.twitter.com/5UzbaaQwne
Première découverte, en Antarctique, de fragments fossiles de grenouille datant de 40 millions d'années. Leurs plus proches congénères vivent aujourd'hui dans les forêts chiliennes.