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TIL that "Auto-Tune" was originally created by an engineer and it's intended use was to find oil.

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9Ylrm TIL that in 1976, a giant inflatable pig being used in a Pink Floyd photo shoot broke free and caused all flights at London Heathrow to be grounded and the Royal Air Force to send helicopters to search for it. It landed in a farmer's field unscathed where it scared all of his cows.
KOVE9 TIL in the event of victory in WWII the Nazis planned to host every Olympic Games that followed in a stadium that would seat 405’000 people
9QyQ TIL that despite making $475 million at the box office, against a $32.5 million budget, Return of the Jedi is still shown as not making any profit, on paper, thus denying the actor who played Darth Vader any residuals.
KYONG TIL the most expensive religious text ever sold was an handwritten printer’s manuscript of the Book of Mormon. It was sold for $35 million in 2017
X0abj TIL that the Czech polymath Jára Cimrman was on track to win The Greatest Czech TV contest in 2005, but was disqualified on account of being fictional