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TIL: Inspired by a Renaissance writer who said "a well-rounded man should be an artist, a warrior and philosopher" JASON EVERMAN, original bassist for Nirvana, joined the US military, the Special Forces, studied under monks in Tibet and earned a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Columbia.

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