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TIL The Blues Brothers Band [Aykroyd, Belushi, et al] had a number #1 album which went double platinum and they opened for the Grateful Dead BEFORE the film was made. That album has now sold more than 3.5 million copies and is among the highest-selling blues albums of all time.

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mxDWP TIL the pervy roots of Neil Diamond’s ‘Sweet Caroline’. The song is based on a 12 year old Caroline Kennedy.
x64M0 TIL the last officially reported lynching in the US was 1981, Michael Donald, and the last officially reported racially incited murder was 2020 of Ahmaud Arbery.
Lolr TIL a 7th grader was ejected from a basketball game for dunking.
8agBZ TIL The Uniform Monday Holiday Act (Pub.L. 90–363, 82 Stat. 250) is an Act of Congress that amended the federal holiday provisions of the United States Code to establish the observance of certain holidays on Mondays (including Memorial Day, formerly May 30th). Signed: 6/28/1968; Effective: 1/1/1971
QJnYp TIL about Frank "Sugarchile" Robinson, who taught himself to play piano at the age of two, played with Lionel Hampton when he was 5, was the first black entertainer at the White House Correspondents dinner when he was 8, recorded for Capitol Records (with two hits) from 9-12 then retired from music.