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TIL of Mrs. Miller, a middle-aged housewife with no formal music training, whose first album “Mrs. Miller’s Greatest Hits” consisted of badly sung covers of popular pop songs from bands such as The Beatles. Her album reached #15 on the Billboard’s Top Albums chart in 1966.

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ADpBw TIL the deadliest blizzard in history occurred in 1972, in Iran. 4000 people died and over 200 villages were totally wiped out for good.
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yVQYl TIL that the most serious and gravest Crime in the United Kingdom is High Treason - i.e: disloyalty to the Crown, or any attempts to deprive the Queen of her crown and undermine the line of succession to the throne.
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