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TIL that Micky Dolenz of The Monkees was the owner of the third Moog synthesizer ever commercially available, and used it to perform "Daily Nightly" in the first use of a synthesizer in a rock recording.

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wLlGJ TIL David Bowie's final album "Blackstar" was heavily influenced by Kendrick Lamar's "To Pimp A Butterfly"
4pAb TIL the oldest tree in the world is 9550 years old, predating civilization
GybQ TIL former US Attorney General and key supporter of the Patriot Act, John Ashcroft, once lost a senatorial race to a dead guy.
kObp5 Today I learned "Bill and Ted" from the "Bill and Ted" movie series are officially not stoners but "they have a nice outlook on life, they like people [and] their friendship"
Eg90d TIL the shortest war in history, the Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896, lasted only 38-45 minutes. The UK fought the Zanzibar Sultanate over a new Sultan who did not have British approval. The outcome was a puppet government with heavy British influence over Zanzibar.