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TIL As part of a promotional campaign by Sega in the early 2000s, Fred Durst signed several Dreamcast consoles and battled other players in a UFC game. The campaign featured a magazine ad with a cartoon Fred Durst saying, "If you get your ass kicked, it's probably me on the other end of the line."

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