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Japanese monks and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years. They accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset (infosec.pub)
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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 18 hours ago

I agree, but I think here "accidentally" is used in an ironic manner because this is of course not actually a bad thing.