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TIL after a reviewer commented about a "Billy Joel Rock Band" referenced in an episode of The Office by saying "let's hope [it] never actually exists ever", Billy Joel read the review and told his people "Get me on that Rock Band game".

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YpbnP TIL Philips has a record label subsidiary. One artist that it produced for was Elton John’s singles from 1968 to 1970. Another artist was The Singing Nun’s “Dominique” which played frequently in the US anthology series “American Horror Story: Asylum”.
BgxVK TIL "Threes Company" is a remake of a British sitcom
QN0y9 TIL Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, one of the most widely known spiritual and philosophical classic books by the Roman emperor, was not intended to be a book but a personal diary, which was carried out from AD 171 to the present day.
GYnKQ TIL that there is a pink kryptonite that made Superman gay for an issue of Supergirl in 2003
jNGwM TIL of Lake Chad, which has shrunk by over 90% since the '60s due to poor environmental management. The ecological catastrophe continues to endanger the water supply of 30 million people in West Africa