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TIL Scientists had to purge Urban Dictionary’s data from IBM’s Watson’s memory because it learned to swear.

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oEpR TIL Jack Black’s mother was one of the engineers who helped design the Hubble Space Telescope.
awbN9 TIL that pirates and sailors wore eye patches not necessarily to cover a missing eye, but also to keep one eye dark-adapted for work below decks.
KYl74 TIL that Indians/Indo-Mauritians make up approximately 66% of the population in Mauritius, followed by Mauritian Creoles (28%), and Chinese Mauritians (3%).
v1ZKL TIL in an early draft of Back to the Future, the time machine was a refrigerator. It was changed because Robert Zemeckis was afraid kids would imitate the film and get trapped.
QJEVe TIL there is a mini “desert”, called the Athabasca Sand Dunes, near the northern border of Saskatchewan. It is the most northerly active sand dunes on the Earth.