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TIL bees are more closely related to ants than to wasps.

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XvKk TIL that to prepare IBM’s Watson for Jeopardy, researchers inputted the entirety of Urban Dictionary. Unfortunately, this had the side effect of Watson adopting profanity. In one test, it even used the word “bullshit” to respond to a researcher’s query.
0wPx5 TIL 'Hello' as a greeting is credited to Thomas Edison. Hello likely derived from hullo, a expression of surprise, but was seen by Edison as good greeting for telephone conversations. Alexander Graham Bell initially used Ahoy (as used on ships) as a telephone greeting, but it didn't take off.
8epNK TIL The first person clinically diagnosed with Autism is still alive. Donald Grey Triplett who is 89 years old.
8aax4 TIL Dendrophilia is the sexual arousal from trees.
OG167 TIL on December 16th 2008 Denmark was struck by a magnitude 4.7 earthquake, which became the deadliest in the country’s recorded history, by killing a pet turtle and a cat.