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TIL Noel Gallagher wrote the Oasis song 'Live Forever' after being offended by Kurt Cobain and the Nirvana song 'I Hate Myself and Want to Die'

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o6aE TIL the highest troop concentration in the history of counter-insurgency warfare was not in Iraq, or Afghanistan, but in Ireland, where the British stationed 20 troops for every 1000 civilians during the peak of The Troubles
GAMw5 TIL that the official Game Boy port of classic video game Dragon's Lair has nothing to do with the original game aside from the protagonist Dirk. It is actually a port of a different game, Roller Coaster, the result being a game in which Dirk must navigate various carnival rides and roller coasters.
woNW7 TIL in 2019 Robert Kirkman ended 'The Walking Dead' comic book series (source of a multibillion-dollar franchise) without any warning at all when he concluded issue #193 with a letter explaining it was over. He had ended it on his own terms, while partly concerned he lacked the material to continue.
MeBva TIL Paris's first Tex-Mex restaurant opened in 1983. Business was slow, but the 1986 film Betty Blue, had characters drinking tequila shots and eating chili con carne, made the food popular. Benayoun said, "after the movie came out, everybody in Paris wanted a shot of tequila and a bowl of chili."
rNrAd TIL about "Embassy", an Australian drama series set in the embassy of a fictional South-East Asian country which the Malaysian government considered to be so offensive that it was cited as one of the reasons for a temporary freezing of diplomatic relations between the two countries.