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Odd. I just tried
and got
I'm clearly not on the same setup as you are, but my off-the-cuff guess is that your curl command was issued from a system that cloudflare already recognized (IP whitelist, cookies, I dunno).
Anyways, I'm reading through this blog post on using cURL with cloudflare-protected sites and I'm finding it interesting.
Of course their challenge requires those things. How else could they implement it? Most users will never be presented with a challenge though and it is trivial to disable if you don't want to ever challenge anyone. I was just saying CF blocks ML crawlers.