Paul McCartney dreamed the melody of "Yesterday" one night and immediately wrote the music the next morning. He then looked around for a month to make sure that he didn't subconsciously plagiarize it from somebody else.
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The drummer for the rock group Def Leppard only has one arm.
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The Beatles wrote into their contracts for American concerts that they would not play in front of segregated audiences.
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There's a road in Lancaster, CA that has grooves carved in such a way that when you drive over them at 55 MPH, they will play a part of Rossini's "The William Tell Overture."
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In Montreal, there's a bus stop with swings that play musical notes when you swing on them.
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In 2007, Joshua Bell pretended to be a street violinist and went mostly ignored. Just two days earlier, he played in a sold out theater with each seat costing $100. The violin he used on the street was worth 3.5 million dollars.
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The Russian Army's favorite marching song is the SpongeBob SquarePants theme song.
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