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Discover these random, bizarre and thoroughly interesting facts from the world of music.

Listening to music while working out measurably improves physical performance.

You do not like the original version of a song because it is better; you like it because it is the one you heard first.

Leo Fender, inventor of the Telecaster and Stratocaster guitars, could not play guitar himself.

A single violin is made from over 70 individual pieces of wood.

Flowers can grow faster by listening to music.

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

The original lyrics of the ‘Happy Birthday to You’ song were ‘Good Morning to You’.

Metallica is the first and only band to play on all seven continents.

Eminem wrote and recorded ‘The Real Slim Shady’ just three hours before his album was due.

The largest free rock concert ever had 4.2 Million people. Rod Stewart in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil held it.