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TIL Stephen Hawking can have a normal more “modernized” voice however he chooses to keep the robotic voice as it is the voice he has come to identify with

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R7NN6 TIL Congressman Leo Ryan is the only US member of Congress to ever be killed in the line of duty. He was assasinated while investigating the Jonestown cult.
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