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TIL That Xbox had ambient sounds playing while you left the Xbox idle, the sounds are from NASA transmissions, so the Xbox would look like superior technology

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M7AY7 TIL John Candy, Harold Ramis and Eugene Levy had voice acting roles in Heavy Metal, the 1981 adult animated film. Candy played multiple roles; Ramis' character yells "nose dive!" and snorts "Plutonian Nyborg" while co-piloting a spaceship; and Levy played crooked space captain Lincoln F. Sternn
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