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TIL Amazon Alexa comes equipped with a library of 42 different fart sounds

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ANwel TIL that both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were skeptical of the results of the 1790 United States Census. They believed that the true population was higher than the total of 3,929,214 people counted in the Census.
XEeKk TIL Grant Kirkhope, the composer of Donkey Kong 64, is still embarrassed by the DK Rap since he created it as a joke.
Me4jB TIL there once existed the Silver Republican Party, a US political party that split from the Republican Party in the 1890s over the issues of bimetallism and free silver. It disbanded in the early 1990s and most of its members joined the GOP, but some went to the Democrats.
69V5Y TIL Orcas cooperated with humans in Australia to catch whales. Humans would give the orcas the tongue and lips of a caught whale as payment.
QJrxe TIL that Mississippi did not officially ratify the 13th amendment (ending slavery) until 2013.