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TIL the band WAR, the first black band booked on the Sunset Strip, Why Can't We Be Friends is about the absurdity of judging others based on our differences. "I don't judge you by your name, your color, or your money. I judge you by whether or not you're an exemplary person."

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5YAnp TIL that Grace Slick, singer of Jefferson Airplane, conspired a plot to spike Richard Nixon’s drink with 600 micrograms of LSD at a White House tea party. She was denied entry, but not before her companion hung a huge black flag with a marijuana leaf on the WH gate.
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