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TIL of Connie Converse, whose work is among the earliest known recordings of the singer-songwriter genre of music. In 1974 she disappeared, writing to family and friends that she wished to start a new life. Her music has received renewed attention in recent years, but she was never seen again.

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neGr TIL that Edward James Olmos was contacted about being the captain of the Enterprise for The Next Generation but turned it down, only to become the captain of another famous ship later on.
QNEyp TIL one of the original drummers for The Ventures dropped out because he was too young to perform gigs at nightclubs. He went on to become a 4-Star General in the US Air Force.
BrDRD TIL of George Pullman, a 19th century industrialist who built a company town adjacent to his factory, established behavioral standards that workers had to meet to live in the area, and charged them high rents, even as wages decreased.
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78wp7 TIL: The day Alice and Chains started recording their second album "Dirt," was the same day the 1992 Los Angeles riots began. The band escaped to Joshua Tree National park and waited there for about 5 days, taking Slayer vocalist Tom Araya with them.