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TIL that ¾ of the cars that Rolls Royce has ever produced are still on the road.

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Wkmmd TIL Alan Turing wasn't pardoned until 2013 for 'Gross Indecency' because of his sexuality despite shortening the length of WW2 by 5 years and being considered the father of modern computing, his work saved thousands of lives
Oon6R TIL that a Parsi man named Farrokh Bulsara, grew up in India, and after moving to England changed his name to Freddie Mercury and founded the band Queen.
680Y TIL NFL cheerleaders are given extensive rulebooks governing their everyday behavior, including what conversations to avoid, when to change underwear, what tampons to use, when to wash their feet, how to eat meat, soup, and bread, and to “not be overly opinionated about anything.”
0wl85 TIL that the Judge Rotenberg Center, a SPED (Special-needs Education) School in Massachusetts, has been, and still is, using electroshock devices and other violent means to “discipline” misbehaving students.
wj4E TIL David Cope created a piece of software called Emily Howell, which could analyze sheet music of an artist and then write songs in the artist’s style. When professional musicians and reviewers were asked which song was written by Beethoven and which by Emily, most were unsure or wrong.