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TIL that Cher’s “Believe” was the first song to use Auto-Tune, and that it was initially known as the “Cher Effect”

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yQlMX TIL that the British phrase 'blowing smoke up my arse' comes from 1700s London: the banks of the Thames were lined with bellows that were used to perform a 'smoke enema' on drowned londoners in an attempt to save them. It was not effective.
GY6x1 TIL that Batman is based on an English vigilante named Bill Smith who fought crime in the 1800s.
d8gKK TIL about the encephalization quotient (EQ), the ratio of a species’ actual brain mass to its predicted brain mass used as a marker for intelligence. Rats have a EQ of 0.4, Chimps 2.5, Dolphins 5.3, and humans 7.0 respectively.
XZnj TIL an 8-year-old’s arm was bitten off by a shark, only to have it reattached after his uncle wrestled the shark to shore.
4XLd6 TIL that Keanu Reeves gave approximately $80 million of his $114 million earnings from The Matrix sequels, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, to the special effects and makeup staff.