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TIL about Dipendra, the 2nd to last King of Nepal, who spent the entirety of his reign in a coma.

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7b17 TIL that since Queen’s lead guitarist Brian May could not afford a guitar at the beginning of his career, his father and he decided to build an electric guitar from scratch with old oak wood from a fireplace in 1963. He still plays “Red” wherever he tours.
1PvO TIL about the Zomba Prison Project, a music recording made by inmates of a maximum security prison in Malawi known as the “ waiting room of hell. ” The completed album has 20 songs by 16 prisoners and was nominated for the Best World Music Album in 2016.
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