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TIL the Dalek voice in Doctor Who (2005) is recorded through a custom analog ring modulator; the BBC were unable to reproduce the original effect digitally.

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nW6r9 Today I learned of Baarle-Nassau, a town in the Netherlands which has 22 exclaves of Belgium in it, some of which have exclaves of the Netherlands in them
4XoJN TIL of Mettigel, a German dish prepared by garnishing raw pork to look like a hedgehog.
8eKGX TIL Nunavut is the only Province or Territory in Canada without a single Walmart store
YrYr TIL During the campaign of 1920, President Warren G. Harding was accused of making up a word: “normalcy.” When asked if he instead meant “normality,” Harding responded “I have looked for ‘normality’ in my dictionary and I do not find it there. 'Normalcy’, however, I did find, and it is a good word.”
7rkXp TIL about Continuum, a pseudoscientific magazine that denied the existence of HIV/AIDS. It ran from 1992 until 2001 and ceased publication because the editors had died of AIDS-defining clinical conditions.