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TIL Brad Fiedel, when composing the now-iconic score for The Terminator, accidentally programmed his musical equipment to the unusual time signature of 13/16 instead of the more conventional 7/8. Fiedel found that he liked the "herky-jerky" "propulsiveness" of the signature and decided to keep it.

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