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TIL that on its birthday (April 5th) Curiosity sings itself “Happy Birthday.”

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Pk9E TIL there is an AI called Melomics which has written over 1,000,000,000 songs since July 2012 without human intervention
nv7 TIL that “Acute Lead Poisoning” is medical slang for gunshot wound.
x6KVD TIL, a male orca named Tilikum in Orlando sea world involved in three human killings including two trainers.
QJLVE TIL that there were over 158,962,555,217,826,360,000 combinations to the Enigma Machine, regarding the codes it could use for messages. Yet, Alan Turing's Bombe machine, through just trial and error, was able to decode messages sent by Germans in 20 minutes.
loyJB TIL teeth are not bones but are evolved fish scales