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ADema TIL of Kevin MacLeod. A composer who has made over 2,000 pieces of royalty free music.
rRa5x TIL CS Lewis did not intend for Aslan to be an allegory of Christ, but rather an actual incarnation of Christ in Narnia. He said "Since Narnia is a world of Talking Beasts, I thought He [Christ] would become a Talking Beast there, as He became a man here."
W7gjX TIL Space Poop Challenge, a 2016 contest sponsored by NASA for new designs of space toilet systems for use in space suits, requesting "proposed solutions for fecal, urine, and menstrual management systems to be used in the crew’s launch and entry suits over a continuous duration of up to 144 hours".
v1e0j TIL of the Eidophone, an instrument which created images from the interaction of voice and materials. Inventor Margaret Watts-Hughes, a Welsh singer, was working with a device similar to Bell's Photophone when she noticed perfect geometrical patterns formed according to clarity and calibre of voice.
oRkPr TIL of Sai, a commune in the Orne department in France. It has a population of 222 and its inhabitants are known as Sayiens (male) and Sayiennes (female).