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TIL Domino's Pizza added human engine sound to silent electric scooter in the Netherlands

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KOZ5G TIL about a baseball team that literally played for their lives. An integrated team of death-row inmates was assembled, called The Penitentiary All Stars, played against other local teams in Wyoming, and earned the prison officials money from gambling. Winning earned the team stays of execution.
oB768 TIL: a group of audiophiles were unable to tell the difference between music transmitted over monster cables vs a coat hanger.
ne867 TIL that in 1940 Disney's movie "Fantasia" invented the concept of stereo sound, eventually changing the music industry forever. To promote the film, Disney created a surround sound system called "Fantasound" that used multiple speakers spread across a room to immerse audiences in the film's music
Oo06Y TIL Even though North and South America are physically attached, there is no road that connects the two continents.
ZN64 TIL the Romans divided the day into 24 hours. Unlike us, there were always 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness. A daylight hour in summer was considerably longer than one in winter.