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Amazon admits Alexa is creepily laughing at people.

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Yp6Lv TIL that it took Noah Webster a total of 28 years to complete his dictionary
ADKJn TIL cows in the U.S. are repeatedly impregnated (often by artificial insemination) so they can make milk nearly year-round.
R57W8 TIL analysis of fish caught in giant water surges occurring immediately following the meteorite impact which caused the KPG extinction event, ending non-avian dinosaurs, show this may have happened in boreal spring; austral autumn—contributing to the death of species coming out of hibernation