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Ben Folds showed up to a jury recital at University of Miami's music school with a broken hand from defending his roommate from bullies the night before, but was required to play anyway. He ended up losing his scholarship and in desperation threw his drum kit into his campus' lake.

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In 2008, Ben Folds recorded a "fake" album and purposely leaked it to throw off pirates and then released the real album as scheduled

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1. Ben Folds released an album titled Party Night: Five Songs About Jesus. The EP had four songs, none mentioning Jesus.

2. In 2010, after a video of a man who looked like Ben Folds playing music to unsuspecting people on Chatroulette went viral, Folds performed a homage to him at his next concert

3. Ben Folds recently composed a full symphony live at the Kennedy Center in 10 minutes from audience prompts. (And it's beautiful)

4. William Shatner created a music album with Ben Folds in 2004.

5. Ben Folds Five had no idea that Reinhold Messner was an actual person (famous climber) when they created released their 1999 album "The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner"

6. The Ben Folds Five song "Brick" is about Ben Folds' high school girlfriend getting an abortion

7. Ben Folds has a song titled "F10-D-A," which he sings to sound like "F'ed in the A"

8. Ben Folds got so frustrated by a barrage of angry texts that he threw his phone into a hotel pool. Kesha happened to be there and jumped in fully-clothed to retrieve it.

9. Tim & Eric did the video for Ben Fold's song "You Don't Know Me"

10. Ben Folds "Phone in the Pool" was inspired by him throwing his phone in the pool because of angry/impatient calls. Then out of nowhere, Kesha jumps into the pool, recovers Folds phone from the deep end and say's to him "Put it in Rice."

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Ben Folds Five released their album 'The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner' because that was the name they used on fake ID's as teenagers. They were unaware that not only was Reinhold Messner a real person, he was a famous mountaineer.

Ben Folds recorded and released a fake leak of his 2008 album "Way to Normal." Folds recorded the songs "on a night to kill in Dublin" - source