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TIL Survivor’s “Eye Of The Tiger” was written at the request of actor Sylvester Stallone, who was unable to get permission for Queen’s “Another One Bites the Dust”.

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1aoMX TIL the Barenaked Ladies song “One Week” peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard charts — where it remained for exactly one week.
awajN TIL a man went to prison for killing hundreds of thousands of fish, blaming them for the death of his father. First I started picking them off with my 30.06, when I ran out of shells I went after ‘em with my knife. when I dropped it into the river, I went to work with my bare hands.”
QY5p TIL When recording “That’s life”, the scowl in Sinatra’s voice was a result of the producer telling Sinatra, after the recording session, to get out of his car and back in the studio to re-record the vocal. This made Frank very angry, shown in the song, creating the exact feel they wanted.
j8E TIL that since 2010, ps3 uses an audio watermark algorithm to detect illegal movie copies. It can survive compression, re-encoding and microphone recording yet it is imperceptible to human hearing.
0drR5 TIL during WW1 France lost 25% of its 18-30 year-old male population.