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TIL: The official song of POTUS, Hail to the Chief, was adapted from an original Gaelic melody

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4XOaX TIL of the Floppotron, a "robot orchestra" made from obsolete drives and scanners whose stepper motors are run at different speeds to produce musical tones.
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