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TIL Germans have nothing to do with German chocolate cake. It was made by an American whose last name was "German".

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E7yd TIL that MIT engineer Dennis Klatt synthesised Stephen Hawking’s ‘voice’. Hawking subsequently requested to keep that voice throughout every upgrade of his system.
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