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TIL that Bank of America's digital assistant Erica is named that because "bank of amERICA"

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D1lme TIL the oldest mathematical artifact in the world is the Lebombo bone, found in the mountains of Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), Africa. The bone was likely used as a measurement device and to keep track of lunar cycles, suggesting that the first mathematicians might have been African women.
dw17 TIL Testimony of war crimes committed by Iraq against Kuwait was an astroturf campaign to sell Operation Desert Storm to the American people, people involved included senators and congressmen who knowingly lied.
LkDLp TIL Clyde Tombaugh, the astronomist who discovered Pluto, had his ashes placed on the New Horizons spacecraft, which flew to Pluto in 2006.
dD8YZ TIL the animal with the strongest sense of smell is the African Elephant followed by the rat and the cow
KOVe9 TIL in 1972 David Duke was charged with stealing campaign funds he had raised for presidential candidate George Wallace. He was also charged with filling glass containers with a flammable liquid, banned under a New Orleans ordinance. Both charges were eventually dropped.