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TIL that on the last week of 2002, Dave Grohl had 3 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, with 3 different bands: “All My Life” by Foo Fighters (as guitarist and frontman), “No One Knows” by Queens of the Stone Age and “You Know You’re Right” by Nirvana (both as drummer).

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