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TIL Auto-Tune actually originated as a byproduct of the mining industry

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e07pn TIL Half of the world's prison population of about nine million is held in the US, China or Russia.
6Elm8 TIL each year about 100 US firefighters are convicted of arson. The issue is so prevalent that the South Carolina Forestry Commission and the FBI Behavior Analysis Unit both created profiles of an arsonist firefighter.
VM4nQ TIL that baby owls sleep face down because their heads are too heavy.
yQkYe TIL the Greeks often described foreign languages as sounding like "bar bar bar." Anyone who spoke a foreign language was called a Barbarian.