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TIL that to get the perfectly high-pitched voices of the chipmunks in the Alvin and the Chipmunks series, the voice actors would speak very slowly into a tape recorder, which would then be sped up to normal talking speeds.

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PYPjE TIL that NYE revelers in Times Square are often locked into place for up to twelve hours and cannot move, so many of them wear adult diapers and the kids just go on the street.
LwaZ TIL that authors J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis made a pact to write books on two topics. Lewis would take “space travel,” Tolkien “time travel”. Lewis completed his “space travel” trilogy, but Tolkien never finished his “time travel” books. Instead, Tolkien wrote “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy.
GAN4G TIL the sun takes 225m Earth years to make one full orbit around the centre of The Milky Way. This is called the galactic year.
b6MrN TIL Nolan Bushnell played Spacewar! in a computer lab in the 1960s. The only computers capable of running the game at the time cost more than $100,000. Bushnell decided he didn't need a computer and used affordable custom hardware to create "Computer Space" housed in a futuristic cabinet
gMwl8 TIL The NES game 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' included a real phone number that players could call and hear a recording of Jessica Rabbit offering hints. The phone line was discontinued by 1990 and reassigned to a sex hotline some time before 2010. The original recording has since been lost.