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TIL Google made an AI that converts text into music

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6lyX TIL Although considered by many to be taboo when cousins get married, the risk of them having offspring with genetic defects is not significantly higher than two random strangers having kids.
X0m0P TIL of the Aghori, an all-male Hindu cult that lives in charnel grounds and eats human flesh to realize nonduality
gAkL TIL During the 1650s, over 100,000 Irish children between the ages of 10 and 14 were taken from their parents and sold as slaves in the West Indies, Virginia and New England.
EAjW TIL the bones of notorious Auschwitz doctor and SS officer Josef Mengele are used as a teaching aid in medical forensics classes at the University of São Paulo. They were originally exhumed in 1985 in order to confirm his death.
8ayVV TIL that a Philo Farnsworth, inventor of the tv, was a 14-year-old when he invented it