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TIL whale songs sound just like bird songs when sped up
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TIL - The famous 80’s song Tom’s Diner formed the basis for an algorithm for sound compression that created the MP3, giving the Artist, Suzanne Vega the nickname of ‘The Mother of MP3’
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TIL that the design head of Corvette wanted the Mako Shark Corvette painted to look like the shark mounted in his office. When the design team couldn’t match the colors they stole the shark and painted it to look like the car. The design head never noticed and was happy with the results.
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TIL Rich people in China often hire body doubles to serve their prison sentences.
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TIL - it's now possible to see what the Hubble telescope caught on the day of your birthday. Mine was Ceres, the largest known object in the asteroid belt, also a dwarf planet. Amidst what is happening on earth right now, please don't forget to look up the night sky.
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TIL The Great Hurricane of 1780 is the deadliest atlantic hurricane on record, while likely ravaging islands in the Lesser Antilles as a category 5 storm, it killed at least 22,000 people.