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TIL that Black Sabbath’s Cocaine budget in 1972 was $75,000. Roughly $350,000 today.

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J18x4 TIL that Robbie Williams covered "She's the One" without the original artist's permission, and deliberately angers him further by claiming to have written it when introducing the song live
JYerj TIL of Connie Converse, whose work is among the earliest known recordings of the singer-songwriter genre of music. In 1974 she disappeared, writing to family and friends that she wished to start a new life. Her music has received renewed attention in recent years, but she was never seen again.
BKwy TIL that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints purchased advertisements in many playbills for the musical “The Book of Mormon”, with phrases like “The book is always better” and “you’ve seen the play, now read the book.”
D1vor TIL about John “Liver Eatin’” Johnson, a Mexican-American War veteran turned mountain man, who in 1847 started a personal vendetta against the Crow Nation after they killed his Flathead wife, he is said to have killed and scalped more than 300 Crows and then ate their livers as a sign of disrespect
AVxg TIL Mark David Chapman planned to kill David Bowie and had a front row seat (along with John & Yoko) for Bowie’s Broadway show the day after killing John