*DOUBLED FACTS* The Book of Random Facts

Part 3 - Music

#1 - Listening to music while working out measurably improves physical performance.

#2 - Warner Music collected over US$2 million in royalties in 2008 for public usage of the "Happy Birthday" song.

#3 - Your favorite song is probably your favorite because you associate it with an emotional event in your life.

#4 - None of The Beatles Could Read Music.

#5 - Your heartbeat changes and mimics the music you listen to.

#6 - Elvis Presley didn't write any of his songs.

#7 - The type of music you listen to affects the way you perceive the world.

#8 - Barry Manilow didn't write his song called "I write the songs".

#9 - Leo Fender, inventor of the Telecaster and Stratocaster electric guitars, could not play guitar.

#10 - Musicians have the same life expectancy as Zimbabweans: the lowest on earth.

#11 - The Beatles used to be called Johnny and the Moondogs.

#12 - The world's longest concert goes so slow, it will last 639 years.

#13 - The world's most expensive musical instrument, a Stradivarius violin, was sold in 2011 for US$15.9 million.

#14 - Loud music can make a person drink more in less time.

#15 - In 1989, the U.S. military blared AC/DC music at General Noriega's compound in Panama for 2 continuous days. The dictator surrendered.

#16 - Rapper NoClue is the World's Fastest Rapper with 723 syllables in 51.27 seconds (14.1 syllables per second).

#17 - Jimi Hendrix couldn't read or write music.

#18 - For every US$1000 of music sold, the average musician makes just US$23.40.

#19 - Metallica (woop) is the first and only band to play on all seven continents.

#20 - Michael Jackson bought the rights to most of The Beatles' music for US$47.5 million in 1985. It's now worth US$450 million.

#21 - Led Zeppelin got their name from a fellow musician, who said their band would go down like a "lead balloon."

#22 - The British Navy uses Britney Spears' songs to scare off Somali pirates.

#23 - Eminem wrote and recorded "The Real Slim Shady" just 3 hours before his album was due.

#24 - Babies remain calm twice as long when listening to a song as they do when listening to speech, according to a study. I'd like to see how calm they are when I blast my metal music in their ears.....

#25 - In 2015, Astronaut Chris Hadfield released the first album of songs recorded entirely in space.

#26 - "Under Pressure" was written by David Bowie and Queen during a 24-hour wine and cocaine marathon.

#27 - The piano Freddie Mercury plays in Bohemian Rhapsody is the same exact piano Paul McCartney plays in Hey Jude.

#28 - When Benjamin Franklin invented his own harmonica, it became so popular in Europe that Mozart and Beethoven composed music for it.

#29 - Only about 1 in every 10,000 people has "perfect pitch", the ability to identify a musical note just by hearing it, with no reference note.

#30 - Finland has more heavy metal bands per capita than any other country in the world (I want to live there now).

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