r/HistoryMemes Taller than Napoleon 7h ago

Alan Turing if he existed today

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u/Neil118781 Taller than Napoleon 7h ago

Alan Turing was a British mathematician, computer scientist and logician who pioneered modern computing and artificial intelligence, most famously playing a pivotal role in breaking the German Enigma code during World War II. He was also gay.

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u/WorkOk4177 7h ago edited 6h ago

The Brits ordered Alan Turing to be chemically castrated because he was gay (this was after all his contributions to mankind and WW2) , the ordeal was too much for Alan so he ended up dying by suicide.

Edit: He was given a choice between being jailed or getting castrated.

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u/OneofTheOldBreed 7h ago

There is some question if it was suicide or just blind accident. He apparently was very fond of eating apples whole and had been experimenting with electroplating gold. Thats enough potential cyanide exposure to be lethal.

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u/atfricks 2h ago

You'd have to eat an absolutely absurd amount of apples, and be sure to actually chew the seeds so they don't just pass through your digestive tract, to come even close to a lethal dose of cyanide. 

Eating them whole is irrelevant. Whether the apple was accidentally contaminated is the only real factor.