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TIL in 1969, Paul McCartney’s head went missing from a Los Angeles billboard promoting the Beatles album “Abbey Road”. The mystery remained unsolved until 2012, when a man named Robert Quinn confessed that he stole it as a prank on his 19th birthday and still has McCartney’s head in his living room.

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