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Vanilla beans, when dried and cured, are black. Since vanilla must be harvested by hand, it is one of the most exotic foods in the world.

Leo Fender never learned to play guitar.

The line "Play It Again Sam" never appears in Casablanca. "Beam me up Scotty" is never spoken in the original Star Trek.

"Macaroni" was a type of fashion in 18th-century Britain, characterized by over-the-top flamboyance. When Yankee Doodle sticks a feather in his cap and calls it Macaroni, the implication is that he's such a backward yokel that he thinks a feather is all it takes to make him a Macaroni.

Tin cans were invented sometime before 1772. The first can opener wasn't patented until 1855. The Bible never mentions the type of fruit Eve bites into. Rennaisance painters pulled from Greek mythology and portrayed it as an apple. The Moon is tidally locked to the Earth, so the same side is...

The Sun is a white star, not yellow. It only looks yellow around sunrise/set due to the way dust scatters light in the atmosphere. At other times of day it's too bright to stare at directly.

I really like the DR flats I got, though I haven't gone through the body with them.

Open jams are a great way to keep your live band chops in shape. Even if you don't get a gig directly from this, this will help come audition time.

For originals, use the whiteboard to write down the chords/structure of the song you're working on, at least during the learning/writing phase. Nothing is more irritating than hearing "OK, this song is ACDECDABD#BFGDCA. OK got it? Lets go..." Also, for any band, TURN DOWN!!!!!! If the...

The reason blues jams are so popular is that almost all blues music is structurally the same. So if you know your basic 12-bar blues progression, all you need to know is what key and how fast and you're on your way. Blues jams are a great way to get in shape quickly, especially if you...