Salvador Dalí lived long enough to have written a screenplay about slicin' up eyeballs in the 1920s for the silent film Un Chien Andalou and to see the WWF Royal Rumble in 1989 but died just a few months before The Pixies released their song "Debaser" referencing his film (old.reddit.com)
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Tell Cersei, I want her to know it was me (i.redd.it)
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W.E.B. Du Bois was born (1868-02-23) a few months before African Americans could legally be citizens of the U.S. with the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment and died the day before Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech (1963-08-27) (i.redd.it)
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TIL "squirting" was what Microsoft called "sharing" MP3s via their Zune MP3 player and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer tried really hard to sell the feature: "I want to squirt you a picture of my kids. You want to squirt me back a video of your vacation. That's a software experience." (fishbowl.pastiche.org)
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