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doyK TIL the morning of Super Bowl XLI, Don Mischer asked Prince if he would be ok to perform in the rain. Prince responded simply, “Can you make it rain harder”?
d8OV9 TIL that a "Mary Sue" character - usually a writer self inserting themselves into a story where they can do nothing wrong - is named after a Star Trek fanfic where a 15 year old Lieutenant Mary Sue ran the ship, won the Nobel Prize, and her birthday was a national holiday each year.
Z0rQ TIL that in Texas some convicts are offered decades long prison sentences or forced book club meetings while on parole
PYOAG TIL that the 2007 Will Smith movie "I Am Legend" included as an Easter Egg a poster for "Batman vs Superman" a movie that came out nine years later
BgoYk TIL: Exploding Head Syndrome where a sudden imaginary loud noise startles you awake is related to myoclonus.