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TIL Brazil went against pharmaceutical giants to become a model on HIV prevention and the United States was the only abstention in a UN meeting that declared HIV drugs to be a human right.

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xVKPB TIL -Alexa commercials are intentionally muted in the 3,000Hz to 6,000Hz range of the audio spectrum, which tips off the system that the “Alexa” phrase being spoken isn’t in fact a real command and should be ignored
neDZ7 TIL that after WWII, a small electronics shop was built in a bomb-damaged department store in Tokyo. The company, Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation, had only $530 and 8 employees. The company invented Japan's first tape recorder and, in 1958, changed its name to Sony.
9YKyr TIL in 1857 Queen Victoria chose Ottawa as Canada’s capital because it was the midpoint between Toronto & Montreal thus a political compromise between English speaking & French speaking Canada
KmvG TIL India has more people using the Internet than the entire population of the United States
RRrw TIL that there are 57 signals that Google looks at to personally tailor one’s query results and that there is no standard Google anymore.