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TIL that Alexa can analyze patterns of word use, manner of pronunciation and voice characteristics to learn about my "body features, gender, age, personality traits, mental and physical health, emotions, degree of intoxication and sleepiness, geographical origin and socioeconomic status."

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dn78 TIL a US cargo plane crashed while moving children from Vietnam. American businessman Robert Macauley heard that it would take over a week to evacuate the survivors, so he chartered a Boeing 747 and arranged for 300 orphaned children to leave the country, paying for the trip by mortgaging his house.
J7R1 TIL Miley Cyrus’ dad is on the PTC’s advisory board. The organization’s mission is to “protect children from graphic and gratuitous programming and to restore responsibility to the entertainment industry.”
4Xlwa TIL that we have prescription drug ads on TV because of one young woman's job interview.
W8yB TIL severed octopus tentacles will still function as normal for up to an hour after being cut off, even going as far as to search for food and bring it back to a “phantom mouth”.
wL9jY TIL that the 1982 hit "Gloria" by Laura Branigan was originally an Italian hit of the same name, written and performed in 1979 by Umberto Tozzi.