› added 6 years ago

114

TIL During the Napster controversy, The Offspring wanted to release their upcoming album “Conspiracy of One” entirely online for free, but couldn’t due to legal threats from Sony. A few years later, they put up a dedicated radio stream of all their music on their site for free.

Read more mp3newswire.net

via reddit.com

5VXOp TIL that “Me at the zoo” was the first video ever posted to YouTube by co-founder Jawed Karin in 2005
rNRGx TIL that when the film adaptation of the Crow was in preproduction, Paramount studio execs proposed turning the movie into a musical starring Michael Jackson.
Brory TIL of Sonoluminescense: When an underwater bubble is collapsed by sound waves, it creates light.
YDx7 TIL that Jason Rohrer created a board game that could not be played for, at most, 2700 years because he hid it in 1 of 1,017,000 different locations in the Nevada Desert.
X0k06 TIL the company name evian spelled backwards is naive