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TIL Cows moo in “regional accents”
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TIL the original name for the snowmobile brand Ski-Doo was "Ski-Dog", but a typographical error in a Bombardier brochure meant the current name stuck.
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TIL: Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" didn't have a musical soundtrack because he wanted the auditory focus of the movie to be on the unsettling and experimental electronic sounds produced by a strange instrument called the trautonium, a predecessor to the analogue synthesizer.
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TIL that the Dutch East India Company paid its investors an 18% annual dividend for almost 200 years.
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TIL Garfield was never intended to be funny. It was a conscious (and very successful) effort to create a comic strip that would be marketable and make money, not laughs.
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TIL that Bradbury wrote the entire novel “Fahrenheit 451” in the basement of UCLA’s Powell Library on a pay typewriter that he rented for a fee of ten cents per half an hour. It took him only 9,80$ and 9days.