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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#?