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TIL Fozzy's first two albums (featuring mostly covers) were supposed to be satire, based on the spoof that the band were megastars who had been touring in Japan for the past 20 years only to find that their biggest hits had been "ripped off" by other rock bands

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OoX91 TIL that Coolio's "Gangster's Paradise" (1995), which was later parodied by Weird Al's "Amish Paradise" (1996), is not itself an entirely original song. But rather, it is largely based on (to the point of nearly being a parody cover of) Stevie Wonder's "Pastime Paradise" (1976).
4kgj6 TIL that this is how American school children addressed the flag during the pledge until 1942, when it was changed to the hand over the heart.
X0aaX TIL That Niko Bellic is only 30 years old in GTA 4.
mx4wY TIL that in 1989 around 2 million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania held hands in peaceful protest against the Soviet Union, creating a chain of people that was 600 km long. Known as the Baltic Chain, it sparked demonstrations overseas and forced the USSR to acknowledge its crimes.
Y77YZ TIL that in 2002, Studio Ghibli sent a Samurai sword with the message "No cuts" to the Miramax chairman, who wanted to edit Princess Mononoke from 135 down to 90 minutes for the American release