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TIL that If you hear the GameCube menu background music sped up to 16x you will hear the same tune of the Famicom’s Disk System startup.

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yVZmv TIL that a Korean cult predicted the rapture to occur on 12AM, October 28, 1992. Parishioners awaited transportation to heaven; some had quit their jobs or given away possessions. Mass suicides were feared. 10 minutes after 12AM, a boy shouted from inside: “Nothing is happening.”
AKvo TIL that Steve-O found out Ryan Dunn had died when TMZ called him at 5 a.m. asking about it
GARg TIL that J.R.R. Tolkien wrote the definition for “walrus” and many other W words in the Oxford English Dictionary.
b9LLN TIL Roman Catholics in Bavaria founded a secret society in 1740 called the Order of the Pug. New members had to wear dog collars and scratch at the door to get in.
D1XAJ TIL Billy Redden, who played Lonnie in the famous Dueling Banjos scene from Deliverance, was paid only $500 for his role and now works at a Walmart in Clayton, GA.