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TIL IBM Had To Delete ‘Urban Dictionary’ Data from The Watson Super Computer System Because The Machine Started Cursing.

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Yponv TIL out of the 14 dot-com companies that advertised during the Super Bowl in 2000, only 4 are still active today.
78bRL TIL about the 1907 danish film Løvejagten, which was controversial for containing the actual killing of two lions. The lions were bought from a german zoo, and the footage was banned by denmark.
ANO7x TIL there’s a house in NY that is legally haunted “and seller must inform the purchaser of the haunting.”
pYeO TIL the actor for Chucky in the Child’s Play movies, is also Grima Wormtongue from Lord of the Rings. And the voice of Piero in Dishonored.
pdPp TIL that when the Big Bang theory was first presented, most scientists rejected it for sounding too religious.