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TIL of Deep Thunder, a weather prediction system created by IBM and processed by Watson. Deep Thunder can accurately predict weather down to a .2 mile (one city block) radius using data it collects from smartphone barometers.

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Md8W TIL : Quotation marks differ based on the language “english”, «french», „german“ or »german«, ”swedish”, …
ADD6x TIL of 'Wound Man' – an illustration from the Middle Ages to help doctors treat wounds a person might suffer in battle
KEBw TIL When Chuck Palahniuk attempted to publish his second novel, Invisible Monsters, publishers rejected it for its disturbing content. This led him to work on his most famous novel, Fight Club, which he wrote as an attempt to disturb the publisher even more for rejecting him.
Mev7a TIL that Pumpkin is not a vegetable, scientifically it is a berry.
yMxV TIL The inventor of auto-tune forgot to patent his idea in germany. Emagic created a similar program. Then Apple bought [Emagic], and integrated it into their Logic Pro software. his company’s reaction: “We can’t sue them, it would put us out of business. They’re too big to sue.”