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TIL for Moog Indigo (1970), synth pioneer Jean-Jacques Perrey recorded actual bees, corrected their pitches to musical notes, then manually spliced tapes into the melody of "Flight of the Bumblebee". In an era before computer editing, the melody for one verse took 52 hours.

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Zp58G TIL the island of Camiguin in the Philippines has more volcanoes than towns
awgm9 TIL of Cliff Young, a 61 year-old Australian farmer, who won a 875 km (544 mi) 1983 ultra marathon from Sydney to Melbourne by running for 5 days, 15 hours, and 4 minutes. He did this in overalls and boots—and without his dentures, which he said rattled in his head when he ran.
yVBeV TIL that the percentage of UK households considered white-collar (managers, supervisors, clerks) rose from 34% in 1968 to 55% in 2016.
dW4K TIL there was a woman named Veronica Seider had vision 20x better than average. She could identify people more than a mile (1.6km) away.
RL44 TIL Albert Einstein and Jewish Intellectuals saw the beginning of the Israeli-Palestinian struggle in 1948, warned the U.S. in an open letter to the New York Times.