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TIL that Tears for Fears: Everybody wants to Rule the World was inspired by Simple Minds: Waterfront (a mate of mine is in that video..somewhere)

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x615o TIL: There was a proposal in 1902 to name Royal Navy submarines after prehistoric sea creatures
g4jW TIL I learned the Village People didn’t create the YMCA dance. The group was clapping above their head during a performance and the audience thought they were making a “Y” and continued by forming the rest of the letters The band just rolled with it and included it in the rest of their performances.
VAgD TIL in ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King’ (2003), they made a special effort to make sure that Sauron’s tower being destroyed did not resemble the World Trade Center attack.
Y70Qr TIL that George Lucas named the planet Tatooine after the region of Tunisia where he filmed those scenes - Tataouine.
W7Ya4 TIL that dingoes were brought to Australia by humans around 4,000 years ago, and are actually an ancient breed of domestic dog