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TIL the first time Trey Parker used auto-tune, he had to deliberately sing off-key. “You had to be a bad singer in order for that thing to actually sound the way it does.”

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5R0p TIL that an Apollo astronaut lost his wedding ring during his trip to the moon… and found it again during a spacewalk.
kMN1 TIL in 1985 a Soviet icebreaker rescued a large pod of beluga whales trapped by pack ice, leading them to safety by playing music to lure them out through the cleared channels.
p8JrN TIL that in the film Candyman, Tony Todd negotiated a fee of $1000 for each time he was stung during the bee scene. He walked away with $23000.
ZOWB TIL MRI scans have found that the pain of rejection and physical pain are associated with similar regions of the brain. One study found that the painkiller acetaminophen reduced the reported levels of emotional pain in a rejection experiment.
m1pkR TIL Samsung started off in 1938 as a grocery and noodle trading company before jumping into electronics in the 1960s.