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TIL The Cranberries' "Dreams" made them very popular in Hong Kong after a Cantonese cover by Faye Wong was featured in the film Chungking Express (1994).

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YpeAr TIL on 1957, Lawrence Joseph Bader, a salesman from Ohio, disappeared on a fishing trip and was declared dead on 1960. On 1965, probably suffering from amnesia, he was found in Nebraska as a TV announcer named "Fritz" Johnson, and had created another family.
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