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One of the best designed album covers IMO

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This minimalistic design of The Rolling Stones' 1991 live album Flashpoint says it best.

Fun fact about this place

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Before it was Turkish Chef, the Savoy Cafe in Wandsworth Road was best known for its appearance in the music video of a-ha's hit single "Take on Me".

A shame this restaurant is no more

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I went to Little Chef back in April 2011 when me, my sister, my dad and stepmum stopped there for lunch on our way to Caerphilly, where the latter's cousin lived at the time. Great food and it's a shame that the restaurant is no longer around at rest areas.

I won't do anything here today

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I don't do April Fool's jokes, okay.

Sidetalk's best moment

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Two words: Coney Island as explained in this video.

This is actually a thing

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While I can't find any video - just pictures - of it, Japanese baseball team Hanshin Tigers has an annual tradition of a geisha or a maiko (apprentice geisha) from  Miyagawacho to throw the first pitch in one of their games. How interesting is that?

Moby's last UK top 20 hit

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This song "Lift Me Up" peaked at number 18 in spring 2005.

Remember this Maytag ad from 2019?

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It had the NSYNC song "It's Gonna Be Me".

New original character revealed in Funko Pops

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In one of the new Funko Pops from Marvel Studios' What If? revealed a new original character named Kahhori, who is a Native American heroine. Honestly, I'm hoping that she'll make it to the comics one day and I can picture Amber Midthunder or Q'orianka Kilcher voicing her in the upcoming second season of the multiverse centric Marvel Cinematic Universe animated series.

This tweet from Gunn gives me hope

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Last week, James Gunn has confirmed that he read the Marv Wolfman run of Teen Titans when he was younger and honestly, I'm hopeful we'll see the Titans in a future DCEU film under his tenure.