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oBjmK TIL in 1986, the band Genesis and four out of the five associate members as solo artists, had songs in the Billboard Top 40 in the same calendar year
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VBOMm TIL that Phineas Gage survived an accident where a metal rod pierced his skull. It happened in 1948, while working on a new railroad line, a three-foot-long metal rod pierced his left cheek, passed behind his eye, and perforated part of his brain. He survived.