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TIL Jack and Meg White of the White Stripes presented themselves as siblings, but were actually married and divorced before the band became famous

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XEYAQ TIL that the sound used when planes are going down and crashing in films is the sound of a siren fitted onto a Nazi dive bomber. The siren was fazed out towards the end of the war since the siren had considerable drag and the pilots hated having to listen to the whine during the entire flight.
oBrW8 TIL Shoplifters were using self service checkouts to scan expensive fruit and veg as carrots at a major UK supermarket chain. They were only discovered when the supermarket noticed they had sold more carrots than they’d ever had in stock.
165b7 TIL Cher's "Believe," released in 1998, was the first song to utilize Auto-Tune's now ubiquitous vocal warping vocal effects that experienced massive commercial success
k9oe TIL “Chumlee” is paid $25,000 per episode of Pawn Stars.
YEkd TIL that because bullets move faster than sound, a shot to the head could kill you before you even hear the gun fire