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Amazon admits Alexa is creepily laughing at people.
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TIL in 1934, Swiss banking secrecy laws were strengthened to encourage Jews of Central & Eastern Europe, fearful of Nazis, to hide their assets in Swiss banks. After a majority of those depositors died during the Holocaust, the laws were used to wrongfully deny their heirs access to those accounts
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TIL by eating sausages during Lent in 1522, Christoph Froschauer and Huldrych Zwingli defied Church fasting rules, igniting the Swiss Reformation.
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TIL: The Ramones debut was only certified gold in April 2014, 38 years after its release and three months before the final member on the album died.
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TIL about “Umuganda,” a national holiday in Rwanda taking place on the last Saturday of every month for mandatory nationwide community work.
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TIL CNN had 50 people covering the aftermath of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. But assigned more then 400 to England’s royal wedding.