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TIL EA Games offered to pay Benjamin Burnley (Breaking Benjamin) to talk positively about Star Wars: Battlefront. Benjamin proceeded to destroy the game's disc and claim the game sucks

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wAao TIL that the most common phobia is the fear of public speaking.
e7Z5 TIL For a period of thirty years a man weighed everything he ate and drank, as well as all of his waste, in order to study metabolism
ZZLo TIL The actors in ‘Alien’ were not told about the alien chestbursting out of the body, causing one actress to pass out and another actor to nearly have a heart attack after having a few gallons of animal parts exploded onto their bodies.
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