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TIL that the song "Timothy" by the Buoys is about cannibalism

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mMMo TIL of the “Coffee Cantata”, a comic opera by J.S. Bach about a young woman who drank absurd amounts of coffee to annoy her father, who wouldn’t let her marry
e0N0k TIL that there was another kind of hidden track possible on audio CDs call a pregap/zero track. You had to rewind from track 1 to hear it.
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