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TIL Metallica’s Lars Ulrich announced that Metallica’s music is available for free streaming on Spotify. Which was founded by the same man who founded Napster. Sean Parker

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e0bME TIL Winona Ryder was supposed to play the role of Mary Corleone in The Godfather Part III, but was replaced last minute with Sofia Coppola because of becoming sick a week before filming. Critics panned Coppola's performance, and it was a major reason that the movie tanked at the box office.
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rReQd TIL about an Indian art called Shatavadhana, where a person has to remember and answer questions on a stage from 100 people simultaneously while dealing with distractions in a round robin manner. The tasks vary from making up a poem spontaneously to keeping a count of a bell ringing at random.