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TIL Auto-tune was created by Dr. Andy Hildebrand in 1997 and the first song to use the pitch-correcting software on vocals was “Believe” by Cher in 1998.

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Ry66 TIL of the Behistun Inscription. Much like the Rosetta Stone, which was crucial in deciphering hieroglyphics, the Behistun is a multilingual inscription that was the key to decoding cuneiform. It told the story of King Darius’ struggle for power as well as his conquests in Mesopotamia and Persia.
gYPW TIL that a bank robber covered his face with lemon juice because he believed it would make his face invisible to surveillance cameras. This led to a Cornell psychology study that showed unskilled people mistakenly assess their abilities to be much higher than they really are.
GAYR5 TIL Tommy Davidson, comedian and actor from "In Living Color," was abandoned in a pile of trash at eighteen-months-old. He was rescued and adopted by a white family.
xV4o5 TIL that North Korea has a population of 25.5 million people. That means its population is slightly larger than Australia’s and it has more people than two thirds of the world’s countries (even after accounting for territories and dependencies listed separately in this data)
Wk5p9 TIL at the British surrender at Yorktown in 1781, the British were marching facing the French army, ignoring the Americans. Marquis de Lafayette, commander of the American Light Infantry brigade, ordered his band to play Yankee Doodle, and the British troops instantly turned to face U.S. soldiers.