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WWgA TIL that the word Hello only began being used as a greeting when the telephone was invented, credited as a suggestion by Thomas Edison to be used when answering the phone. Alexander Graham Bell, his competitor, preferred Ahoy.
LkB7d TIL Natalie Portman had multiple sex scenes with Ashton Kutcher and one with Mila Kunis ( Kutcher's now wife) in separate movies in the same year.
dEk9 TIL that a pound (.45kg) of dimes and a pound (.45kg) of quarters are both worth exactly $20 USD.
jwVE TIL that composer Hans Zimmer has never had any formal music training.
yQjV8 TIL one of the most successful forms of communism exists in the Indian state of Kerala and has been democratically elected multiple times.