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TIL in "Weird Al" Yankovic's album "Off the Deep End" (1992), there's a hidden track named "Bite Me", which consists of several seconds of loud music and Yankovic screaming, after 10 minutes of silence following track 11 "You Don't Love Me Anymore". It was there to "come on and scare you to death".

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