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TIL NASA has released ‘spooky’ sounds from space for Halloween.

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5BZ9 TIL that in 1913, Nebraska outlawed oral sex - in an ironic twist the act that was passed to criminalize oral sex was the 69th act to be passed that year. The act has since been known as “act 69”.
16AAP TIL that the origin of 6 of the 7 musical notes (do re mi fa sol la) were inspired by the first syllable of each line of the Latin hymn "Hymn to St. John the Baptist"
p8QkO TIL that in 2013, archaeologists consulted 3 San hunters from Namibia to help interpret human footprints left in caves in France during the last Ice Age
DN1j TIL the value of Pi could be approximated with stunning accuracy by dropping a bunch of matches on a piece of paper.
WkP49 TIL that a 13-year-old kid won a contest to draw their own Robot Master for the game Mega Man 4, that kid went on to be the artist of the One Punch Man manga