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TIL that Ferrari engines are musically engineered to sound perfect by utilizing 3rd and 6th harmonics on the air intake, like a flute or organ.

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6EkLw TIL that on ZZ Top's best selling album "Eliminator" bassist Duty Hill and drummer Frank Beard received album credits but did not attend most of the recording sessions. The album consists almost entirely of Billy Gibbons accompanied by electronically synthesized bass and drums.
AD5Kg TIL that the first pressing of Madonna's 'Like a Prayer' was scented with patchouli to give it the essence of church incense.
50Pr TIL a Swedish company makes jeans in North Korea…which are illegal to wear in North Korea
KOPlE TIL in the 1980 David Lynch film The Elephant Man, Mel Brooks served as a producer but was intentionally left uncredited so audiences did not expect a comedy going in
woM06 TIL Eliot Indian Bible (1663), It was the first Bible translated into a Native American language on the continent, carried out by John Eliot financed by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England and with the help of natives Cockenoe, John Sassamon, Job Nesuton and James Printer.