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TIL that The Sex Pistols were asked by their manager to write a song called "Submission", hoping they would write about bondage. Instead they wrote a song about a submarine mission.

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WQ7o TIL Jim Davis never intended Garfield to be funny, but rather as “a conscious effort to come up with a good, marketable character”
JYldl TIL that Ed King, who played guitar for the California psychedelic band Strawberry Alarm Clock ("Incense and Peppermints") left that band and became guitar/bass player for Lynyrd Skynyrd, including writing the opening riff for "Sweet Home Alabama" and co-wrote several other of their hit songs.
V8xk TIL The drummer of The Police composed the Spyro the Dragon soundtrack
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