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yVKZp TIL By recording The French folksong "Au Clair de le Lune"(9th April 1860) Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville was the first human ever to preserve his own voice and send it into the future on a phonautagram using a phonautograph.
N7eJ8 TIL the earliest known recording of a human voice was made in 1860 by dragging a stylus over soot-colored paper. The recording was made for visual purposes only and was not played back until 2008.
8LQ8 TIL the first recording of the spoken word “Fuck” was made in 1885.