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TIL “47 Ronin” Starring Keanu Reeves was the biggest box office flop in history. Losing over $149 million, enough to put universal deep in the red in 2013.

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R6pl TIL Roger Taylor was so fond of his song “I’m in Love with My Car” that he urged Freddie Mercury to allow it to be the B-side to “Bohemian Rhapsody”, to the point where he locked himself in a cupboard until Mercury agreed. The song ended up generating equal royalties just because it was the B-side.
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