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So, what would be Nirvana's fourth album?

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Well, for me, it would be MTV Unplugged in New York . Why? It gave us one of the best covers of all time but also, this version of "All Apologies" was a bigger hit than the one from In Utero .

As in seen in the film The Way, Way Back

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The car with a seat at the back area from the film is in fact a 1970 Buick Estate station wagon. That's how the film got its name from.

Once a music TV channel, now a generalist TV channel

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Did you know that Italian TV channel TV8 had its roots as a music channel? Yep, the channel was launched as Videomusic in 1984. The channel would later be rebranded as TMC2 after being bought by Telemontecarlo (now La7) in 1994 and then became MTV Italy in 1997 before that channel was split into two in 2015 with MTV8 and MTV Next and MTV8 would become TV8 a year later.

Cineworld Unlimited was introduced 25 years and one month ago

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Well, it originated as UGC Unlimited membership until 2004 when Cineworld bought the UK cinemas of the French cinema chain. Unlimited is also a precursor to the Virgin Megapass membership under UGC's predecessor Virgin Cinemas.