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Arnold Schwarzenegger has appeared in over 15,000 published scientific studies

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Vanessa Hill at BrainCraft got obsessed with tallying up how many times Arnold Schwarzenegger has appeared in scientific papers, but she wasn't prepared for the actual number of papers: over 15,000.

It turns out that Arnold is very useful in information sciences because of his unusual name. "Arnold Schwarzenegger will always be a duplicate" noted one paper on sorting large quantities of data. Via Vanessa:

Sometimes I use this platform for good, sometimes I use it to uncover every scientific study mentioning Arnold Schwarzenegger. After using a study mentioning Schwarzenegger a few episodes ago, I wondered, "How many scientific studies mention Arnold Schwarzenegger?" And when I looked into it, the answer REALLY got out of hand. This was a real pain in the neck.

Every Scientific Study on Arnold Schwarzenegger (YouTube / BrainCraft)

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