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TIL Skinny Puppy, a Canadian band sent a bill to the US military requesting $666,000 in royalties for playing their music as torture for Guantanamo Bay's prisoners.

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E1mLP TIL Tupper’s self referential formula is an inequality that plots anything you can fit in a 106x17 pixels rectangle in a certain interval on the Y-axis. As a consequence, we can state that for every one of us there is an interval where the formula plots our name and the date of our death.
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