Alexa is always listening. 🎤
(And so are other apps)
Its microphones are constantly on, collecting voice recordings, tracking your habits, and building voice profiles. This data can be accessed by algorithms, human reviewers, and even third parties. 😬

Protect your privacy:
- Mute the microphone when not in use 🔴
- Delete voice recordings regularly or auto-delete them 🗑️
- Disable human review in the app settings 📱
- Use white noise to mask conversations 🌊

Take control of your data! 🔒
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@googlefactss #AlexaPrivacy #DataCollection #TechSafety #SmartHome #PrivacyTips

🎨 "The Red Vineyard" is the only painting Vincent van Gogh sold in his lifetime.
It was purchased in 1890 for 400 francs and now resides in Moscow’s Pushkin Museum.
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Sunday = Meme Day! 😄

Unleash your best memes—it's our weekly tradition! Laugh, vent, and enjoy the chaos. 🎉

For more fun, join the groupchat:

https://t.me/googlefactssgroup

@googlefactss #MemeSunday #SundayFunday #GroupTradition #HaveFun

🎭 On this day – November 16, 1959 – the beloved musical "The Sound of Music" premiered on Broadway!
It later became an Oscar-winning film with timeless songs and a true story of hope and music.

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A 2013 study 📚 suggests men with smaller testicles are more likely to make better fathers 👨👧👦. This research proposes an evolutionary trade-off 🧬 between investing in mating effort 💑 (linked to larger testicles🥚🥚) versus parenting effort 👨🍼 (linked to smaller testicles) in hands-on care, such as feeding 🥣 and changing diapers 👶.

@googlefactss #research #nowyouknow

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That "new car smell" is a toxic chemical cocktail! ☠️

You're breathing VOCs from plastics, foam, and adhesives—including formaldehyde. It's essentially off-gassing from your car's interior.
Carmakers are now phasing it out for health reasons.

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@googlefactss #NewCarSmell #Toxins #HealthWarning #CarFacts

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was a Hindu nationalist leader and Indian independence activist. He created the Hindutva ideology, was imprisoned by the British, and remains controversial.

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@googlefactss #IndianHistory #Savarkar #Hindutva

Nomophobia is the fear of being without your mobile phone. 😱📵

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@googlefactss #phobia

It's National Black Cat Day! 🐈‍⬛️🖤
Share a photo of your majestic void!

Did you know black cats are considered lucky in some cultures?

They're also less likely to be adopted from shelters due to silly superstitions. Time for your kitty to perfect that mysterious, "I know your secrets" look—maybe they're simply plotting world domination or just napping!🐾

Be sure to read the following links if you love cats.
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#BlackCatDay #CatHumor #AdoptDontShop

👑 On November 17, 1989, the Velvet Revolution began in Czechoslovakia — a peaceful student protest that led to the end of communist rule within weeks.
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#VelvetRevolution #Czechoslovakia #PeacefulProtest #History #OnThisDay

The chills ❄️ you sometimes feel when listening to music 🎵 are called "musical frisson" 🎶. This happens when emotionally powerful moments in music, like a sudden shift in harmony 🎼 or a dramatic crescendo 📈, trigger a response in your brain's reward system 🧠 and emotional centers , leading to that physical sensation of chills ❄️ or goosebumps.

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It is common and normal for mothers to poop while giving birth. This often happens during the pushing stage because the muscles used to push a baby out are the same ones used to have a bowel movement.

@googlefactss #humanbody #nowyouknow

🚀 NASA's Psyche mission is on its way to asteroid 16 Psyche—a giant metal rock packed with gold, iron, and nickel worth an estimated $10 quintillion! 🪐

If all that treasure were landed on Earth, it could crash the global economy by making gold and precious metals worthless due to oversupply. 💰📉

Launched in 2023, the spacecraft will arrive in 2029 to study the asteroid's core, not mine it, helping us understand how planets form.
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@googlefactss #NASA #SpaceExploration #PsycheAsteroid #EconomicImpact #GoldRush

Volkswagen was created by direct order of Adolf Hitler. 🪖

In 1937, the Nazi leader commissioned Ferdinand Porsche to design a "people's car" (Volkswagen) with specific requirements:
- Carry a family of five
- Top speed of 100 km/h (62 mph)
- Air-cooled engine to prevent freezing
- Price under 1,000 Reichsmarks

This order resulted in the iconic Beetle. 🚗

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@googlefactss #Volkswagen #History #WW2 #NaziGermany #CarFacts

Onychophagia (nail biting) and onychotillomania (nail picking) are chronic nail conditions categorized as body-focused repetitive behavior (BFRB) disorders.


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@googlefactss #FingerLickingGood
#health #Language

On November 18, 1929, the French government approved the construction of the Maginot Line — a massive system of fortifications along its border with Germany, intended to prevent another invasion like in WWI.
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#OnThisDay #MaginotLine #MilitaryHistory #WWII #France #HistoryFacts