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TIL that the most requested book to be banned for the last two years was the Captain Underpants series by Dav Pilkey

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DWoP TIL Nobuo Uematsu, the original composer of the Final Fantasy series, was voted into the top 20 of the Classic FM Hall of Fame. Higher than at least 1 Beethoven work.
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