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TIL about Daphne Oram, a medium-inspired musician who wrote the first ever real-time electronic composition at the age of 23 and later invented the Oramics Machine—an electronic instrument "played" by painting lines and marks on film.

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04Ey TIL Every language in the world creates different onomatopoeia for the same animal sound. For example, in English a rooster says “Cock-a-doodle-doo” while in German it’s “Kickeriki” and the way that the word is written and pronounced changes the speaker’s perceptions of the original sound.
N7eWM TIL that Domino's Pizza stopped their "30 minutes or it's free" pledge after a major lawsuit that made it appear as if their drivers were reckless.
1a1G8 TIL the anime clips in Malcom in the middle were from an anime called "Jikku Tenshou Nazca"
N7nAQ TIL Tchaikovsky was gay
GY5ng TIL that Queen still performed in apartheid South Africa when the majority of bands refused to, and was by far the largest band to do so. They were subsequently placed on the United Nations' artist blacklist.