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TIL the actor playing Danny in The Shining was kept unaware throughout that he was acting in a horror film

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X0w8k TIL the iconic six-second start-up music-sound of the Windows 95 operating system, "The Microsoft Sound" was created on a Mac. The creator, Brian Eno, admitted "I wrote it on a Mac. I've never used a PC in my life; I don't like them."
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