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kJggE TIL that "Auto-Tune" was originally created by an engineer and it's intended use was to find oil.
R5Pl7 TIL about something called a cigarette umbrella it was a quirky invention from 1931 designed to protect a lit cigarette from rain. It clipped on like a mini umbrella. But it didn’t work so well.
X0YOr TIL that it used to cost 4X as much to send a SMS than it did to send the data from the Hubble Telescope