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TIL Moon Dust cuts through kevlar-like material and is harmful to humans, causing a disease called Moon Hay Fever

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WkpAX TIL that in 1966 a computer scientist wrote a program, called ELIZA, intended to demonstrate the superficiality of communication between people and machines. Instead it came to be seen as a therapy program and fooled a remarkable number of people into believing that the computer had feelings.
d9VE TIL There is a blind, autistic musical prodigy named Derek Paravicini that can play anything he hears but can barely count 10.
neRKY TIL the surname "Esposito" and its variants comes from children who were abandoned ("exposed") in Italy (before the XVII century, when the law forbade it). Every person with that surname today descends from an exposed child that kept the surname the orphanage once gave them.
R7Nw7 TIL that the first non-white person in the NBA was Wataru Misaka a 5’7” Japanese-American point guard. Drafted in 1947, he’s still alive and turns 95 today!
x6l55 TIL the oldest cat ever lived to 38 years and 3 days - 1967 to 2005.