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TIL when the Nick Drake song "Pink Moon" was used in a Volkswagen commercial in 1999, the US sales of his albums went from about 6,000 in 1999 to 74,000 in 2000.

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nWoEG TIL - Georgia Tann ran the Tennessee Children's Home Society which helped make adoption mainstream, but did so by abducting and selling children born to poor and unwed mothers. One of those abducted babies grew up to be Ric Flair.
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