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TIL Christian Bale turned down the role of James Bond, saying “I’ve already played a serial killer.”

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yVXXM TIL that U2’s song Where the Streets Have No Name was notoriously difficult to record due to its complex time signature changes & layered structure. It was nicknamed “the science project song” by producer Daniel Lanois, who resorted to teaching the band the arrangement with a blackboard & pointer
xVjKo TIL Prince's song "Nothing Compares 2 U" was inspired by his housekeeper, Sandy Scipioni, leaving suddenly to be with her family after her dad suddenly died
jNAyp TIL in Fahrenheit 451 the gov't didn't burn books because they were an oppressive dictatorship. The people voted to ban the books because they had short attention spans didn't want to be offended
KYA4J TIL Saccharin(sweetener in Sweet'n Low) is derived from coal tar
XDLR TIL that the Spongebob Squarepants theme-song is a popular marching cadence in the Russian armed forces.