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TIL that if you whisper to Amazon's Alexa, she will reply with a whispered answer.

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BgZ4r TIL The Dispute between a man and his Ba is an Ancient Egyptian text dating to the Middle Kingdom, presenting a dialogue between a man struggling with the hardships of life and his ba (soul) which dissuades him from committing suicide.
oRlVo TIL heat kills more people than hurricanes, tornadoes and floods combined.
7gg7 TIL Samsung’s chairman went on a three day rant to his hundreds of executives in a German hotel conference room. Samsung took his speech, turned it into a book about management and used it as its guiding principles from there on in.
gMD1y TIL since record keeping began in 1915 fifteen people have been killed during the annual Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain.
Bga1d TIL some watches with Roman numerals on the watch face use IIII instead of IV