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TIL the drummer of Black Keys Patrick Carney was testing out his new studio in Tennessee and sent some chords to his uncle, who then added sax and trombone sounds to go with it. It was all compiled by the time Noel Bright was looking for a theme song for Bojack and became first pick.

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b9wDa TIL the expression “sweating like a pig” makes absolutely zero sense. Pigs are physically incapable of sweating.
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VaKp TIL that, during the 1994 San Marino GP, Austrian driver Roland Ratzenberger lost his life after a crash. On the very next day, world champion Ayrton Senna died on the same track. Among the wreckage of Senna’s car was an Austrian flag which he intended to raise after the race to honor Ratzenberger.
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