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TIL Hard rock legends AC/DC started out as a glam-rock act

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6xgQ TIL a team sets up a polling booth in an isolated forest in India each election so that a lone priest who lives there can vote, because the Election Commission mandates that no voter should “ordinarily travel more than 2km to reach the booth.”
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