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TIL that the Royal Albert Hall was ‘furious’ over Beatles "A Day in the Life" lyric. It only has 32 holes and it's not in Blackburn, Lancashire.

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GYdeQ TIL that the best-selling Christmas song of all time, White Christmas, was written by a Jew whose own Christmas tradition was visiting the grave of his son who died on Christmas day in 1928 at the age of three weeks old. That son was Irving Berlin, Jr.
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