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TIL the most downvoted comment in history belongs to EA games with 667k downvotes

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P1mRe TIL: A backronym is an acronym formed from an already existing word by expanding its letters into the words of a phrase.
LQM0v TIL that John Denver is credited as a co-writer of the New Order song Run 2, after his publishing company sued the band due to the song's similarity to his song "Leaving on a Jet Plane".
woZgP TIL there is a Vietnamese Bird Poop Frog I can keep as a pet.
Y7vxP TIL Section 746 of the 2010 US Dodd–Frank Act, prohibiting securities trading based on non-public info misappropriated from a government source, is called the "Eddie Murphy Rule." The term comes from the 1984 film Trading Places, where characters used insider info to short-sell frozen orange juice.
nxWo TIL Freddie Mercury played the same piano that Paul McCartney used for ‘Hey Jude’ in the song ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’