Influence
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TIL folk singer Jackson C. Frank (1943-1999) only released one album and suffered from mental health issues which halted his career. Although he died destitute and unknown, his music has been cited as an influence and covered by such personages as Paul Simon, Nick Drake, Sandy Denny, and Bert Jansch
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TIL about General Butt Naked, a Liberian warlord who used to go into battle naked under heavy drug influence. He would rush enemy lines killing everyone in has path. Then sacrifice children, bathe in their blood, and eat their hearts. He never got shot. He lives now as an evangelical preacher
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TIL that the British MI5 hired an astrologer after they learned that Hitler supposedly used astrology to influence his actions. However it was later known that the predictions of Hitler’s astrologer were extremely inaccurate and Hitler himself thought of astrology as ‘complete nonsense’.
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TIL that the Grease was originally a play based on the writer’s teen years in Chicago, and the male characters were toughs with Polish surnames. The toughs were made more likeable when the play went to New York and became a musical, and the Polish influence was toned down for the movie.
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