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TIL that Rock Band’s program to let artists upload their own material as DLC was called MAGMA, because that’s the source of rock.

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oKnY TIL during Mike Tyson’s rape trial, he was offered a 6 month probation to plead guilty. His response: “I’d spend the rest of my life in jail, I’m not pleading guilty to something I didn’t do.” The woman who accused him has had one prior history of false rape accusation.
Em4o TIL that the person who designed Star Wars’ Darth Maul was instructed to make Maul “a vision from your worst nightmare”, and based the original design on an actual nightmare he had. When he presented the design to George Lucas, Lucas shuddered and told him “Give me your second worst nightmare”.
8ekNL TIL in a double-blind test, professional violinists preferred the sound of a modern violin over multi-million-dollar Stradivarius violins
k7dB TIL: Private John Parr was the first British soldier to die in World War 1. Almost a million more Brits died, and the last was Private George Edwin Ellison, just 90 minutes before the Armistice in 1918. In an unplanned coincidence, their graves face each other just 15ft apart at the same cemetery
e01L4 TIL of Labi Siffre. Dr. Dre wanted to sample his 1970s song "I got the..." for Eminem's "My Name Is" but Siffre, openly gay, initially refused, demanding sexist and homophobic lyrics be removed. Dre and Eminem made changes and the song became a massive hit.