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TIL Stevie Ray Vaughan's signature '59 Stratocaster, Number One, aka "The Wife" was originally owned by Christopher Cross who traded it to a local music store because he wanted a guitar with a "beefier" sound.

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jxBM TIL Lincoln suffered from chronic depression: “He often wept in public and recited maudlin poetry. He told jokes and stories at odd times—he needed the laughs, he said, for his survival. As a young man he talked of suicide.”
bWPZ TIL Paul McCartney dreamed the melody of “Yesterday” one night and immediately wrote the music the next morning. He then looked around for a month to find out whether he did not subconsciously plagiarize it from someone else.
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QNLB6 TIL, after the death of 27-year-old physicist Henry Moseley at Gallipoli (WWI, 1915), the British Government placed a ban on other scientists of repute serving in front-line roles. Ernest Rutherford believed that Moseley's work would have earned him the Nobel Prize.