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TIL that Stephen King decided on the location for the Shining, by opening an atlas and randomly pointing at a location, which happened to be Boulder, Colorado.

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R7rJa TIL that in 2015, Prince voiced his dislike of record labels saying "Record contracts are just like — I'm gonna say the word – slavery." He concluded "I would tell any young artist ... don't sign." At the time he advocated seeing artists paid directly from streaming services, cutting out middlemen.
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