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TIL The original Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers series helped to inspire George Lucas's Star War series to include an "opening crawl," a signature device used in the opening sequence of every numbered film. Star Wars used the famous opening crawl, "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...."

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ZpMPD TIL Up until 2014, the semi-fictional location of the Yakuza game series (神室町) had its own pseudo-radio station with the protagonists' original voice actors for moderators
YpEgW TIL Ajax Amsterdam didn't lose a single home match in the 1971-72 season and was only defeated once in the whole season, and then won the Netherlands national league, KNVB Cup, European Cup and Intercontinental Cup in 1972.
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