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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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9Y6D7 TIL that William Burke, who killed with his partner 16 persons and sold their bodies for use as specimens in anatomy classes of Edinburgh Medical School, was hanged and his corpse was publicly dissected and preserved in the anatomical museum of the same school.
RR08 TIL There is a bathroom stall of the internet where anyone can draw anything all uncensored
a8YOA TIL of RAS syndrome, the act of appending a word to the end of an abbreviated term that already exists at the tail of it. e.g. ATM (automated teller machine) machine, PIN (personal identification number) number and amusingly, RAS (redundant acronym syndrome) syndrome
4arJ TIL Maria Anna Mozart, sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was also a talented musician, but once she reached a “marriageable age”, her parents would no longer permit her to show her artistic talents.
XAar TIL that in 1642, a man was executed because a deformed piglet looked like him. He was convicted of bestiality.