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EPISODE · May 11, 2026 · 5 MIN

May 11 - The Moment a Machine Beat a Human… and Everything Shifted

from Wait, That's Random: This Day in History · host C.L. Berns

May 11, 2026 — Today is National Twilight Zone Day, which feels fitting for moments that don’t quite follow expectations.Today we’re looking at a few shifts in how things are understood.First, Batman’s early expansion in 1939, introducing a different kind of character.Then, the establishment of Glacier National Park in 1910, preserving something instead of changing it.And finally, Deep Blue defeating Garry Kasparov in 1997, changing how people viewed the limits of machines.Plus, a look at Salvador Dalí, whose work challenged how reality itself is represented.It raises a question about how perception changes once something unexpected happens.Anyway… that’s what I ended up finding while working through May 11.

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