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TIL Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer is Female

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Pk9E TIL there is an AI called Melomics which has written over 1,000,000,000 songs since July 2012 without human intervention
OvNR TIL in 2001, a ten-year-old named Laura Buxton, released a balloon with her name and address in the hope of finding a pen pal. The balloon traveled 140 miles before coming down and was found by an almost-ten-year old also named Laura Buxton. They share a number of other similarities.
QONp TIL Cunningham’s law states: “The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it’s to post the wrong answer.”
X04YX TIL that Johann Pachelbel, German composer of the famous Canon in D, had a son Carl who lived and worked as an organist in Charleston, South Carolina.
j5ea TIL that a 10+ hour film version of Dune was almost produced with Salvador Dali as the Emperor, with art by HR Giger and music by Pink Floyd