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TIL Roughly 1/6 of the $6.9 million budget for the movie Dazed and Confused was used just to acquire the rights to many of the 70s music used in the film.

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BLLy TIL that the first album release from Priority Records was by ‘The California Raisins’ a fictional rhythm and blues group made up of anthropomorphized raisins singing hit songs like 'I Heard It Through The Grape Vine’ in order to sell more raisins. The second was Straight Outta Compton by N.W.A.
JBRl TIL John McCain put forward a bill (later overturned by Citizen’s United) that planned to take money out of politics
W7gaY TIL that the first animals in space were fruit flies
n7QG TIL In music a combination of notes exists known as “The Devil’s Interval”, and it was banned in the 1100’s for evoking sexual feelings and being the direct work of the devil.