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TIL Beaver Moon: Full Moon in November 2023

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D1gMP TIL only 7 artists have sold over 250 million albums. 4 of them are British.
rMvo TIL 20 year old Ryan Holle was sentenced to life without parole for lending his car to a friend, who then murdered an 18 year old girl.
GY654 TIL a lawsuit between Gilbert O'Sullivan and Biz Markie over a sampling of "Alone Again" led to the requirement of licensing and fees to sample parts of song, which in turn made it prohibitively expensive to sample multiple songs into a new piece, which had been a common practice in hip hop
5YRpD TIL that the “Grizzly Adams did have a beard” guy, Lee Trevino. (Who is also considered one of the greatest golfer of all time.) Wished he had never been apart of Happy Gilmore, due to “foul” words.
wLDDW TIL Princess Alexandra of Bavaria believed she had swallowed a glass piano as a child. This delusion was not unheard of and was recorded in Europe and mainly suffered by royals, nobels and scholars (between C15 and C17). It was manifest as a fear that parts of their anatomy were made of glass.