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TIL, despite the band’s enduring popularity, Nirvana never had a #1 single on the Billboard Hot 100.

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V7p0 TIL Edward Norton’s first film role ever earned him an Oscar nomination. He is also a Yale graduate that never went to an acting school.
Yp8OW TIL Spielberg’s Hook (1991), is the sixth highest-grossing “pirate-themed” film of all time, behind all five Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
EXJ0 TIL Vincent Van Gogh shot himself in the chest with a 7mm revolver. He walked home, saw doctors but there was no surgeon to remove the bullet. The doctors left him alone smoking his pipe in his room. He died at 37 of infection two days later and his last words were “The sadness will last forever”
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