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TIL that while Elizabeth Fraser was recording “Teardrop” with Massive Attack, she found out that her boyfriend Jeff Buckley drowned. She now considers this song to be “kind of about him.”

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NekQ TIL that in 1981, 19-year old Jeff Dalley died of a massive heart attack after achieving a high score in the Atari game Berzerk.
neXko TIL that the band Joy Division is named after the group of jewish inmates in concentration camps, that had to fulfill sexual demands of the guards
lo8PK TIL when asked about "The Happening", Mark Wahlberg said "It was a really bad movie... Fuck it. It is what it is. Fucking trees, man. The plants. Fuck it. You can’t blame me for not wanting to try to play a science teacher. At least I wasn’t playing a cop or a crook."
mxX5M TIL that the 1981 film Roar used real lions during filming, resulting in at least 70 cast and crew being injured. A crew member was scalped, another had his throat bitten out, and and much of the footage of attacks was used in the final cut of the film. The blood seen in the movie is real.
oBk47 TIL a Doberman in India died protecting its owners from 4 mountain cobras, fighting them for 4 hours. He killed all of them, but then died from poison from multiple snake bites. Hundreds of people paid their respects to him, laying floral wreaths on his body, and held a funeral procession for him.