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TIL that music label “Fat Wreck Chords” has never been a member of the RIAA. The label fought for three years to have their name removed from the list of RIAA members, only to have it re-added. They are battling again to have it removed.

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ZBXa TIL that Merlin the Wizard was possibly based on the legend of a real person, Myrddin Wyllt, a bard who went crazy watching the defeat and slaughter of his Celtic King Gwenddoleu and his army, and spent the rest of his life in the forest living among animals as a madman.
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