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TIL The "Pirate Accent" originates from a single actor. Robert Newton exaggerated his natural Cornish accent when he portrayed Blackbeard and Long John Silver in Various Films in the 1950s.
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TIL that in 1978 Apple Corps (founded by The Beatles) sued Apple Computers for trademark infringement winning $80,000USD. As a condition of the settlement Apple Computers also agreed to never enter the music business, which they later violated in 2003 at the launch of the iTunes Music Store.
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TIL Blondie wrote an original James Bond song : "For Your Eyes Only" but it was rejected and she refused to sing the version the producers chose (sung by Sheena Easton)
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TIL a factory worker saved 34 lives from the 9-story Rana Plaza collapse. Against all warnings, he climbed inside the rubble to pull people to safety. When a doctor was too afraid to go in to amputate the limbs of some that were trapped, the worker took a knife and did it himself to save them.
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TIL that YouTube “freezes” the view count at 301 when videos start getting lots of views. The real numbers are posted once all the traffic to the video is verified as genuine.