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TIL Bowie was so doing so much coke in the mid-70s he had absolutely no memory of recording his "Station to Station" album

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Z898B TIL of the 'Tamworth Two', a pair of pigs that escaped from a truck headed for a slaughterhouse in England. They were on the run for a week before they were eventually caught. The Daily Mail newspaper bought the pigs, which were then sent to an animal sanctuary to live out their lives
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