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TIL Cher's 1998 hit "Believe" is the first song to use Auto-Tune. The singer believed her career was hitting "rock bottom," and after hearing a different song with a wobble effect created by a vocoder (a voice effect pedal tool), decided she wanted to create a similar song.

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nWKm9 TIL that 13 US states have laws prohibiting the sale or trading of cars on Sundays. These so-called 'blue laws' were originally meant to keep people pious and promote church-going.
xnPg TIL of “Yasuke” the first recorded foreign born samurai in Japan from the 16th century. He was a black man from Mozambique and would have been extremely tall at the time. It was reported he had the strength of 10 men.
6Ed98 TIL that Neil Armstrong earned his Masters in Aeronautical Engineering in 1970...AFTER landing on the moon
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