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Did You Know...
...that although Jack and Mack were cousins, they were actually two different types of Knives?

...that the chorus to the "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" was originally "a-reema-leh" until the Fudd brothers, Elmer and Chocolate, were called in to sing backup?

...that playing at the Hair Club for Men is not really a very prestigious engagement?

...the song "Cross-Eyed Mary" by Jethro Tull was originally to have been called "The Girl with Emphysema" until Ian Anderson was made aware of the Jobim classic?

...that 12 tone music, long thought to be the result of endless days of study and creativity by Arnold Schoenberg, actually resulted from stress and years of listening to improv solos while he directed the "Baron von Munchausen Junior High Jazz Band."

...a missing comma inadvertently changed the whole meaning of the song, "What Is This Thing Called, Love?"
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