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TIL The Beatles' first use of studio trickery was on the first song on their first album, "I Saw Her Standing There." Their producer George Martin used an 'especially spirited' count-in from take 9 (“One, two, three, FOUR!”) and spliced it onto take 1, which was the take used on the album.

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N06J TIL that the Irish Parliament once passed a bill of attainder requiring thousands to go to Dublin for sentencing for their supposed disloyalty. Viscount Mountjoy was in prison in the Bastille at the time; he was ordered to break out and get to Dublin, or else face being drawn and quartered.
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