If I had a nickel for every time I heard someone say, "You learn something new every day", and all those nickels were made out of very light plastic like the disease infested ball pits of McDonald's Play-Places and Chuck-E-Cheese restaraunts, I'd be able to put them in a giant vault and swim in them like Scrooge McDuck.
Unfortunately, that is not the case.
Whether or not something is actually learned every day is arguable. In this blog, it is my goal to document at least one thing I learned every day. Who knows, maybe I'll learn two or three things in a day. Maybe one day, I'll not learn anything. Heck, I might even forget something I previously learned, and then will have a day in which I become technically dumber than I was the day before.
Anyway, those are the questions I hope to answer in this blog. Read it. Or not.
So, the thing I learned today is... drum roll please.....
Otis Redding was only 26 when he died.
Holy Jeeze. 26?! He was just a kid! That's some real deep soul, yo. I don't know what you were doing when you were 26, but there's a very good chance you were NOT writing songs like "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" or "These Arms of Mine".
So there it is. One nugget of trivia I picked up today. OK, it's not exactly Earth shattering, nor is it very difficult to find these things out, but it doesn't change the fact that before today, I didn't know that. And for some reason, I always figured Otis was like... 50. But as you now also know, he wasn't.
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