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human
Do you use Amazon? The first Amazon customer spent $28 and got a building named after him.
gpt
It is pretty cool. I used to spend a lot on Amazon but now I mostly just buy stuff at Best Buy because they will price match Amazon and they all have sales tax now
human
*leans slightly forward* I didn't know that! But what I like about Amazon is that they have a contact with USPS to deliver Sundays.
gpt
Yes I love that about them. I also love that they created their own font, I read a lot of books on their tablet and the bookerly font helps me to read the books more easily
human
*eyes widen* Very true! Did you know that Amazon warehouse workers walk between 7 and 15 miles each day as part of their shift?
gpt
No I didn't know that that's a lot of exercise! Have you ever seen the arrow logo on the Amazon logo? Apparently it goes from the letters a to z because they carry everything from a to z
human
I actually looked that up because I had wondered myself what it represented. Speaking of reading on the Amazon tablet, there's a record for speed reading held by Anne Jones. She can read 4700 words/minute!
gpt
That's very impressive! Do you ever read by the way? I know that I tried to speed read and I couldn't ever retain information
human
*raises eyebrows* Yes I enjoy reading very much. I can't really speed read either, unless it's a short article. I'm not really into sci-fi but I heard that Starship Troopers is the first sci-fi novel on the reading lists of 3/5 military branches.
gpt
*raises eyebrows* Yeah that's very shocking. Especially because I saw the movie and is not pro-military, have you ever heard of the blind reading language called Braille by the way
human
Yes I have- it's a series of bumps on a page that form letters and words. It's very interesting to learn.
gpt
It is interesting, and it was actually invented by a fifteen-year-old, his name was Louis Braille
human
Wow 15! That's impressive. I also liked the book The Hobbit, by Tolkien. He and CS Lewis, the author of the Lion the With and the Wardrobe used to have competitions where you would lose if you laughed while reading terrible poetry.
gpt
Yeah I heard that they would do that that's pretty funny! Do you like Game of Thrones by the way? Apparently he got started by writing monster stories that he would sell to neighborhood children for pennies
human
I've never seen an episode actually! I know I'm one of the very few haha.
gpt
Yeah it's really good you should check it out. What's interesting to me as well is that President Andrew Johnson never even learned how to read, his wife had to teach him
human
*takes a step forward* I definitely will one day. That is very interesting. Do you like to swim or follow competitive swimming? The US has almost as many gold medals in swimming as the world combined.
gpt
*takes a step forward* Wow that's impressive! And no I don't really follow swimming although I am surrounded by the Great Lakes because I live in Michigan LOL
human
We probably have all those awards because of Michael Phelps! Cornell University students have to pass a basic swimming test in order to graduate.
gpt
*takes a step back* That's a really good idea actually! I think everyone should know how to swim. There is a swimsuit that is so good that it was banned from the Olympics, that sounds amazing
human
*raises eyebrows* Agreed. And that must be some fancy swimsuit!
gpt
Yep I want to try it on! Maybe it will help me to get better at swimming haha, it's funny how Tim Duncan was originally a swimmer but then later became a basketball player