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TIL Amazon’s Alexa once started laughing randomly at night for no reason. Engineers had to fix it because customers didn’t sign up for a smart assistant and a free exorcism.

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Mel70 TIL Yemen is a tropical country
OonEe TIL Norway kills more whales every year than Japan and Iceland combined.
0GEv TIL that since 1967 the United Kingdom Home Office only counts a homicide if the murder ends with a conviction making it nearly impossible to compare homicides rates between the UK and other developed countries.
Y7m4d TIL that umlauts used in a band’s name (ö, ü, etc) are called “rock dots”.
16DDP TIL James Cameron directed both the first movie to have a budget of at least $100 million (True Lies, 1994) and the first to have a budget of at least $200 million (Titanic, 1997).