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TIL that Eve Plumb, who played Jan Brady in the Brady Bunch, also played the matriarch of a crime family in the ultraviolent Blue Ruin.

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b98p9 TIL about Grammy winning musician Janis Ian. At 16, while on tour & after performing late at night on a tv show, she fell asleep on her chaperone's (a female family friend) lap. Bill Cosby saw this, pronounced her a "lesbian", and actively attempted to blacklist her from all television.
vPN6R TIL that both Duane Allman and Berry Oakley (both of the Allman Brother’s Band) died in separate Motorcycle crashes one year apart; both 24 years old, both in Macon Georgia, and each incident only three blocks away from from each other