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TIL Activision proposed a collaboration with Nintendo to create a brand new franchise exclusive to their systems. Nintendo declined. That franchise was Skylanders.

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ne4BY TIL Weird Al’s “The Saga Begins,” which summarizes the plot of The Phantom Menace, was written two months before the movie’s release. He wrote most of the song using rumors leaked onto the Internet.
AND64 TIL about bi-paternal twins in which a woman becomes impregnated by two different men, resulting in fraternal half-siblings
Y7Ljv TIL the Ridley Scott movie Alien used much the same crew as forgotten Sean Connery star vehicle Outland. The same costume team, props team, staging crew, special effects team, & the same staff even made the title cards & soundtracks! (The crew comparison appears a little over 5 min. into the video.)
p8jnQ TIL Peruvian chicken (Pollo a la Brasa) was created by a pair of Swiss men living in Peru in the 1950s
A7XB TIL a 2005 FX docudrama (“Oil Storm”) portended a major hurricane hitting New Orleans causing citizens to take refugee in the Superdome and a resulting national increase in gas price… A scant three months before Katrina.