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TIL Daft Punk's song, "Robot Rock" is basically a resampled Breakwater song, "Release the Beast."

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xVGlb TIL that Tolkien's dislike of Snow White led him to prohibit the Disney studio from ever producing his works
X0nXP TIL Morrissey had security search his fans for meat products on the way into one of his gigs in 2011. Morrissey who is vegetarian, had previously stopped a gig because someone was throwing sausages at him
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