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TIL Raghavasimhan Sankaranarayanan, a PhD student at Georgia Tech created Hathaani - a robotic violinist designed to play Carnatic music

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moaO TIL that Sadie Hawkins was the ugliest girl in town and that’s why she couldn’t get a date. So, they hosted a footrace and forced the slowest man to marry her.
wQZ6 TIL During the “Red Terror” of 1918, Communist secret police in Orel “poured water on naked prisoners bound in the winter streets until they became living ice statues.” In Ukraine, they “rolled people around in barrels studded internally with nails.” Upwards of 1 million people died.
Vm54 TIL as recently as 2010, there was a member of the United States Senate who was, at one time, a member of the KKK. He had also, as recently as 2001, used the “N” word in an interview with Fox News.
OoQ44 TIL people who refer to themselves by name during inner monologues are calmer, less stressed and more confident than those who use “I” or “me” according to a research done by Michigan State University
xex1 TIL the International Space Station usually sees the sun “rise” once every 90 minutes