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- ...that Mariah Carey scored a #1 hit in every year of a decade (the 1990s)?
- ...that Michael Stipe of R.E.M. fame is godfather to Kurt Cobain’s daughter Francis Bean?
- ...that The Isley Brothers have had at least one hit recording in every decade since the 1950s?
- ...that Otis Redding’s only hit — (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay — occurred posthumously?
- ...that Eric Clapton is a three-time inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (as a member of Cream, The Yardbirds, and as a soloist)?
- ...that Mexican musician Ramón Barrero, famous for playing the world's smallest harmonica, choked to death in 1994 after accidentally inhaling the instrument on stage?
- ... that during World War II, 150,000 carillon bells were stored in "bell cemeteries" (German: Glockenfriedhöfe) before being melted down to make shell casings and armaments?
- ... that the Russian guitar's open G tuning D-G-B-D-G-B-D approximates the major thirds tuning D#-G-B-D#-G-B-D#?