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TIL about the DIMI-S "Sexophone", a device made by ground-breaking synthesiser pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi in 1972, which allowed up to four people to generate sounds based on how they touched each other's bodies, and apparently only reached its full expressive range if everyone involved was naked

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8m9Z TIL The waves created by a moving body in water, be it a duck or a ship(called feather waves) are always at an angle of 19.47 degrees to the direction of motion, irrespective of the speed
X7lQ TIL A man named Mike Merrill decided to sell shares in himself at $1 a share allowing his stockholders decide what he should do with his life
loZxr TIL To portray baby Jesus as all knowing, in renaissance paintings he was given a man face
a8PeZ TIL, Bobby Brown’s Don't Be Cruel was the best-selling album of 1989 in the United States, and finished number one on the Billboard Year-End album chart. Eventually the album sold 12 million copies worldwide in less than a decade.
KVmR TIL Soon after the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor, Ed McMahon enlisted in the Marine Corps and entered flight training. Though unable to enter combat in WWII, he flew 85 combat missions in the Korean War and earned 6 air medals. He retired in 1966 with the rank of colonel.