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Today I learned that Autotune was originally invented for use by geologists

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R5rj4 TIL that in highly intelligent children, their cortex develops LATER than less intelligent children
eYNb TIL that there is a one-room hotel near Antwerp Belgium that is a gigantic scale model of a human colon and anus. Originally created as a work of art, it is realistic in every way including color, veins and a gigantic puckered sphincter.
4XmnX TIL Between 1949 and 1951, the US and the UK airlifted 49,000 Yemenite Jews to safety in Israel
VMpLD TIL most avocados are descended from one tree grown by a Milwaukee postman in 1926
kM4m TIL bowling lanes have a very thin patterned coat of oil that is crucial to consistently landing a strike.