30 Things You Didn’t Know About Queen Elizabeth II –  Hww

30 things you didn’t know about queen elizabeth as one of the most famous monarchs in the world queen elizabeth ii has had a life that was constantly under scrutiny by the media and the public with such a long reign queen elizabeth has seen it all this royal is extremely private which is why there are a lot of things about queen elizabeth that you may not know here is a list of some of the little known facts about the queen number one she is the longest reigning british monarch

queen elizabeth ii is the united kingdom’s longest reigning monarch and one of the world’s longest ruling monarchs in history following the death of her father king george vi in 1952 she ascended to the throne in june of 1953 she was officially crowned the queen of the united kingdom and queen regions of seven commonwealth countries at the time number two she was not technically in line to take the throne the longest reigning british monarch was never supposed to ascend to the throne in 1936 queen elizabeth’s uncle became

king edward viii however he was never crowned and he didn’t rule for even a year he made the controversial decision to marry an american divorcee wallace simpson and this led him to abdicating the throne this changed the course of elizabeth’s life forever as king george became king elizabeth became the immediate heir to her throne her whole life became a matter of public scrutiny number three she never went to school princess elizabeth never went to school but that didn’t mean that she wasn’t educated no elizabeth and margaret were

homeschooled instead which was normal for a royal at the time she studied constitutional history from henry martin the vice provost of eaton college which helped her prepare for her role as the future monarch the archbishop of canterbury taught her religion she was also fluent in french a skill that helped her greatly during her reign she studied art and music and was a champion swimmer number four she had two birthdays the queen celebrated her birthday twice a year she celebrated her birthday on 21 april which is her actual birthday and

then she celebrated it again in june this is because april was deemed too cold for any public celebrations number five she had more than one use for her handbag the queen never seemed to be without her handbag and her handbag was never without a portable hook does that sound strange yeah maybe but it did have its uses you see the queen used her back to send signals to her staff if she set it on the table for dinner it meant that she wanted to end the event within the next five minutes when she puts her bag on the floor it’s a sign that she’s not

into the conversation and wants to be rescued by her lady in waiting but if she hangs the bag from the portable hook under the table then everything is well and good number six she owns all the swans in britain the queen legally owns all the unmarked mute swans in the whole of the united kingdom this is part of a royal tradition that started way back in 1186 swans were very valuable at the time so when henry viii was king it was a crime to steal swan eggs all the eggs had to be counted to make sure none were stolen

a tradition known as swan upping swung up in dates way way back to the 12th century when swans were a food a very important food every year a team rose through the thames to check on the health of the birds so the tradition that originally started to prove ownership is now a census of the birds number seven she was a part of the army princess elizabeth started training as a girl guide when she was 11 years old along with her sister princess margaret she was also a part of the sea rangers a group that taught girls water-based

activities like sailing her work in the girl guides and sea rangers helped her prepare for military service princess elizabeth joined the auxiliary territorial service the ats in 1945 becoming the first female member of the royal family to join the armed services as a full-time member she served in world war ii the princess learned how to drive and maintain vehicles while in the ats she worked as a mechanic and a truck driver number eight she has a stable of race horses queen elizabeth is an avid equestrian she began writing when she was only

three years old when she was four elizabeth got her first pony as a birthday present from her grandfather king george v her first pony was susan a shetland pony the queen breeds racehorses and owns many award-winning horses her horses have won more than 1 600 races she is a patron of the thoroughbred breeders association and is very knowledgeable about the industry one of the biggest horse shows in the world the royal windsor horse show is often attended by the queen number nine she loves dogs you must have seen the classic images of

queen elizabeth along with her corgis it is a well-known fact that the queen loves dogs she received her first corgi susan as a birthday present when she turned 18. after susan the queen had owned at least 30 pembroke welsh corgis who all descended from susan the last of them willow died in 2018. the queen has also bred a mix of corgis and dashons called dorgies she used coupons to buy her wedding dress queen elizabeth ii and prince philip got married in 1947 when the country was still recovering from the war and had

rationing measures in place as a result elizabeth had to use ration coupons to buy the material for her wedding dress she got 200 extra coupons from the government princess elizabeth looked beautiful in the final dress designed by norman hartnell the dress was made of chinese silk with a high neckline and tailored bodies it had a 13 foot long train with a botticelli inspired pattern and was adorned with crystals and 10 000 seed pearls imported from america number 11 her tiara snapped on her wedding day hours before her wedding the diamond

tiara that princess elizabeth was supposed to wear snapped in half as it was being secured to her veil seeing as how this wedding was going to be broadcast all over the world this was a disaster the tiara called the fringe tiara was the queen’s something borrowed from her mother the queen mother when the tiara snapped according to reports the queen mother told elizabeth that they still had two hours and there are other tiaras thankfully the royal jewelry house garrard was on call in case of an emergency and the broken tiara was taken

to the workshop and welded back together and it reached the princess in time for her to wear it to the wedding number 12. she met prince philip when she was 13 years old elizabeth and philip first crossed paths when the princess was just eight years old at the wedding of princess marina of greece and denmark and prince george duke of kent in 1934 they met again properly five years later at the royal naval college in dartmouth when elizabeth was 13 and philip was 18.

this was the first time that she remembers meeting him and it was here apparently that she fell in love with her future husband later they began exchanging letters then in 1946 philip asked king george vi for his daughter’s hand in marriage the king agreed on the condition that the formal announcement of the engagement be delayed until elizabeth turned 21 the following april according to reports both the king and the queen feared that their daughter was a little too young prince philip and queen elizabeth were

third cousins through queen victoria prince philip was born a royal of greece and denmark number 13 she has broken many records queen elizabeth is the longest reigning royal in the history of britain during the queen’s reign there have been 12 british prime ministers and seven roman catholic popes queen elizabeth is also the longest reigning female monarch in the history of the world the marriage of queen elizabeth and prince philip is the longest of any british sovereign the queen also holds the record for the

most countries with her portrait on the currency she appears on the currency of 35 different nations queen elizabeth has traveled the world more than any other king or queen in the world she has visited 116 countries for official visits number 14 she likes to drink the queen has a glass of champagne every single day according to her cousin margaret rhodes the queen enjoys a tipple every single day and she performs the same drinking ritual every day a gin and a dune on the rocks with a slice of lemon before lunch wine with lunch and a

glass of champagne to finish off the day that does sound good number 15 she is exempt from the usual documentation the queen does not require to have most of the important documentation that we have she can drive without a license she doesn’t even need a passport this is because they are all issued in her name she has been to more than 100 countries without one she is also exempt from taxes but she still voluntarily pays income and capital gains taxes number 16 she has a few nicknames the queen’s full name is elizabeth

alexandra mary but when she was a young girl she had trouble pronouncing her own name which came out as lillabet and the name stuck she was called lillabet by her close family prince harry and his wife megan chose this name for their daughter the queen’s husband lovingly called her cabbage her great-grandchild prince george calls her gangan number 17 she speaks fluent french queen elizabeth is fluent in french she learned to speak french at a young age from her french and belgian governesses she often speaks in french when she

visits the country and delivered an address at the state banquet in 2014 in french shocking many dusseld proposed your energy deployed by the milied entrepreneur the skill has proved useful for the queen while speaking to ambassadors and heads of state from french-speaking countries or when visiting french-speaking areas in canada 18.

she has got 30 god children being a godparent is a great honor the queen has at least 30 god children from the 1950s to the present day but not all of them have been revealed publicly she became a godparent even before her reign began many of her god children have connections to the royal family her first god child guy rupert gerard neville in 1945 was the son of lady neville a long time friend of elizabeth 19.

she sent her first email from a british army base on the 26th of march 1976 the queen sent her first ever royal email while visiting the ministry of defense’s scientific research hub the royal signals and radar establishments peter kerstein the man who first brought the arpanet to great britain set up the queen’s mail account he chose the username hme2 her majesty elizabeth ii all she had to do was press a couple of buttons and her message was sent in doing so queen elizabeth became the first royal to send an email

she wears essie ballet slippers nail polish when you are the queen even your nail paint is a very big deal since 1989 queen elizabeth has worn the same shade of nail polish essie’s iconic ballet slippers nail polish is loved by the queen so much that it’s the only color that she will ever wear according to the brand’s website the queen’s hairdresser wrote a letter to nail polish queen essie vaingarten in 1989 requesting a bottle of the classic pale pink shade 21.

she owns an apartment in new york city the british royal owns an apartment in the big apple the queen has a 7.9 million dollar pita tear in manhattan the house is a three-bedroom apartment in zechendorf development’s 50 united nations plaza a building designed by lord norman foster who was knighted by the queen many years ago the 3 000 square foot space comes with three and a half bathrooms and a 15 foot long living and dining room 22.

she is rich forbes estimates that the queen is worth 500 million dollars in personal assets and she is rich however even though she is the queen she is not the wealthiest person in the united kingdom her net worth is way below the 2 674 billionaires on the forbes richest people list much of her wealth comes from private income from her many estates 23.

she has a personal poet a poet laureate has been a part of the british royal staff since the 17th century it is an honorary position appointed by the monarch of the united kingdom the queen’s current poet is simon armitage only human creatures of touch creatures of torque we were busy telling the world what was what he replaced dame carroll and duffy in 2019 who was made the first female poet laureate in 2009.

she wrote poems for special royal events such as the wedding of prince william and kate middleton and the queen’s 60th coronation anniversary the appointed poet gets an annual salary and 720 bottles of sherry when they start 24. she is woken up every day with bagpipes the queen doesn’t wake up to an alarm clock like us commoners instead she has a bagpiper who plays outside her window for 15 minutes every morning at 9 00 am the piper is known as piper to the sovereign she can even tell if someone different than her usual bagpiper is playing

i’m honest i quite simply couldn’t believe it i was asked by a gentleman would you be prepared to go to london and become the next queen’s piper that’s that’s when i thought my goodness this is this is the miss bazaar 25. she was in kenya when she received a message about her father’s death princess elizabeth became queen after the death of her father king george vi on 6th of february 1952 at the time she was on a royal tour of kenya with her husband prince philip elizabeth’s private secretary got the news through a call from a local

journalist and was confirmed by prince philip’s equerry after listening to the bbc world service on the radio prince philip broke the news to the queen about her father’s death she was one of the last to know that she had become queen 26. she doesn’t risk getting blisters when she buys new shoes the royal duties of a queen would also entail being on her feet for hours on end the queen is known to wear a few different styles of shoes from anello and david and she has a trick that she uses to never risk getting blisters on

her feet the queen has a servant with the same size feet who breaks in her shoes for her her shoes have to be immediately comfortable she can never say i am uncomfortable i can’t walk anymore during a royal occasion the servants breaking in the shoes also wear cotton ankle socks and walk on a carpet to soften the leather 27.

she once found an intruder in her room in 1982 a man named michael fagan invaded her bedroom the reports at the time said that the queen with all her poison calm asked him what he was doing there and stalled him with 10 minutes of conversation while waiting for security but according to later interviews with fagin he said that she didn’t wait to have any chats instead running past him and straight out of the room i don’t know if i went into the queen’s bedroom i don’t really know you know um i went into a room you know remember seeing a lady i can’t

really say that even if it was 28 she sneaked out with her sister to celebrate the end of the war when the war finally ended on the 8th of may 1945 elizabeth and margaret were allowed to join the crowds on the streets to celebrate the queen recalls the evening as one of the most memorable in her life i remember lines of unknown people linking arms and walking down whitehall all of us just swept along on a tide of happiness and relief she said of the event according to a post by the royal family on instagram 29.

she has survived assassination attempts being a royal constantly in the public eye isn’t always a good thing queen elizabeth has been in danger on more than one occasion and has survived three assassination attempts in 1970 queen elizabeth and prince philip were on a tour of australia when an attempt was made to assassinate the queen according to former detective superintendent cliff mchardy the royal couple was to go by rail from sydney to orange and the would-be assassins had placed a log on the train tracks to

derail the train the train struck the log but was travelling too slowly for any damage to be done on 13 june 1981 at the annual trooping the color event in london crowds gathered to watch the queen attending the ceremony on horseback as the queen rode by seventeen-year-old marcus sargent fired six blanks from a starting pistol the queen’s horse was startled but the sovereign managed to calm him down he was arrested and sentenced to five years in prison just a few months after being shot at the event the queen faced another assassination

attempt during a visit to new zealand in 1981 while she was visiting a museum in dundin christopher john lewis 17 was waiting in a nearby building and fired out of the window as the queen aligned from her vehicle he missed but witnesses reported hearing a loud crack he was arrested eight days later 30. she has many titles her official title is elizabeth ii by the grace of god of the united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland and her other realms and territories queen head of the commonwealth defender

of the faith in canada she also holds the title of chief hunter of the order of the buffalo hunt she also holds titles from the order of the garter the order of saint john of jerusalem and the imperial order of the crown in india just to name a few so did you learn any new information about this popular british royal how many of these facts did he know about and how many did you learn from tell us in the comments section below if you enjoyed this video please give it a big thumbs up and don’t forget to subscribe

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QQ4 Bob Dylan and Keith Richards have been close friends for nearly 40 years. The friendship began on a live television program in November of 1986 in the 11 seconds after Bob Dylan called Keith Richards music derivative on camera. Keith Richard’s response to that assessment, one sentence said without anger, without performance, with the specific directness of a man who has nothing to prove and knows it made Bob Dylan laugh.

Then made Bob Dylan go quiet. then made Bob Dylan say two words that people who know Bob Dylan say he almost never said to anyone. This is the story of those 11 seconds and the 40 years that followed them. The program was a live music interview special broadcast on an American network on the evening of November 3rd, 1986. The format was simple.

Two musicians, a host, an hour of conversation about music and the state of it. The producers had assembled the pairing of Bob Dylan and Keith Richards with the specific calculation of television producers who understand that two people with equally strong and potentially incompatible views about what music is and what it should do will produce better television than two people who agree about everything.

The calculation was correct, though not in the way the producers had anticipated. Bob Dylan was 45 years old in November of 1986. Bob Dylan had released Empire Burlesque the previous year and had been on the road for most of the intervening period as part of the True Confessions tour with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

Bob Dylan was in November of 1986 in one of the most prolific and restless phases of a career that had consisted almost entirely of prolific and restless phases. A career that had moved through folk, rock, country, gospel, and back again, that had been declared finished at least six times by the music press, and at each time continued with the serene indifference of a river to the opinions of people standing on its banks.

Bob Dylan had been redefining what music could be. Since 1962, Bob Dylan had invented and reinvented himself so many times that reinvention had become his defining characteristic, not in the superficial sense of a performer changing costumes, but in the deeper sense of a musician who had never allowed his work to settle into a form that could be anticipated or categorized from the outside.

Bob Dylan understood influence and originality and the relationship between them better than almost anyone alive in 1986. Bob Dylan had spent 24 years thinking carefully and specifically about where music came from and where music was going and what it meant that those two things were always in constant conversation with each other.

Keith Richards was 42 years old in November of 1986. Keith Richards had been playing guitar professionally since 1962. Keith Richards had built a career on a foundation of American blues and rhythm and blues. A foundation that Keith Richards had studied with the systematic devotion of someone who understood that the tradition he was building on was not incidental to the music he was making, but essential to it.

that you could not understand what Keith Richards did without understanding where Keith Richards had come from and what Keith Richards had been listening to since he was a teenager in Dartford with American Import Records and a secondhand guitar and no teacher except the recordings themselves. Keith Richards had never pretended otherwise. Keith Richards had in fact spent considerable energy across his career making the lineage explicit, naming the artists, citing the recordings, insisting on the acknowledgement of influence that the mainstream music

industry had a long history of suppressing or ignoring or crediting to the wrong people. If anything, Keith Richards was more transparent about his sources than most musicians of his generation. Keith Richards had always said openly that the Rolling Stones came directly from the blues, that Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson and the specific tradition of the Mississippi Delta were not background influences, but foundational ones.

The music Keith Richards made was in direct and sustained conversation with that tradition, something Keith Richards considered not a limitation, but a responsibility and a form of respect. The interview had been running for 8 minutes when the host asked Bob Dylan about the current state of rock and roll.

Bob Dylan answered with the density and the indirection that characterized Bob Dylan’s responses to direct questions, turning the question over, approaching it from an unexpected angle, finding his way to what he actually thought through a series of observations that moved like a river rather than a road. Bob Dylan was not a straightforward interview subject.

Bob Dylan had been asked about rock and roll in hundreds of interviews across 24 years and had developed the habit of treating the question as an invitation to think out loud rather than a request for a prepared position. The producer Gerald Sherman said afterward that in the first 8 minutes of the interview, he had been slightly anxious, not because anything was going wrong, but because nothing was going anywhere in particular yet.

The interview had the feeling of two conversations happening simultaneously. Bob Dylan’s internal one and the external one visible to the cameras. And Gerald Sherman was not certain in those first eight minutes that the two conversations would converge into something. Bob Dylan talked about influence. Bob Dylan talked about originality.

Bob Dylan talked about the difference between music that absorbed a tradition and transformed it and music that absorbed a tradition and reproduced it. And then Bob Dylan made his assessment. And then Bob Dylan said with the precision of a man making a musical assessment rather than a personal judgment that the Rolling Stones work, and Bob Dylan was specific, naming Keith Richards as the guitarist whose approach he was discussing was derivative in a way that Bob Dylan found limiting.

Bob Dylan said it without hostility. Bob Dylan said it as a technical observation about the relationship between source material and the work that came from it. Bob Dylan said that Keith Richards played the blues the way the blues had already been played, rather than using the blues as a starting point for something that had not yet been played.

Keith Richards had been listening to this with the specific attention Keith Richards gave to things being said about music by people who knew music. Keith Richards did not interrupt. Keith Richards did not shift in his chair or display any of the visible signals of a person preparing a defensive response. Keith Richards listened to Bob Dylan’s complete observation all the way to its conclusion without interrupting and without displaying any visible signal of preparing a response.

Then Keith Richards said one sentence. The sentence was not a rebuttal. The sentence did not defend Keith Richards music or argue for its originality or challenge Bob Dylan’s characterization of what the blues meant in the context of rock and roll. The sentence was something else entirely, something that required a specific kind of confidence to say.

The confidence of a person who has spent long enough thinking about the same things as the person they are talking to that they can locate the exact point where their thinking diverges and say something useful about that point rather than simply defending their own position. The sentence acknowledged everything Bob Dylan had said, the assessment, the distinction Bob Dylan was drawing, the specific musical concern underlying the observation, and then turned it 90°.

Keith Richards took Bob Dylan’s own framework, the one Bob Dylan had used to analyze Keith Richards relationship to the blues tradition, and applied it back to Bob Dylan’s work with the same precision Bob Dylan had used to apply it to Keith Richards. Spare aimed. The sentence asked Bob Dylan something about Bob Dylan’s own music, about the relationship between Bob Dylan’s sources and Bob Dylan’s output that Bob Dylan had not been asked on television before.

The sentence did not attack. The sentence illuminated. Bob Dylan laughed. The laugh was not the polite laugh of someone responding to a joke. The laugh was the involuntary laugh of someone who has been genuinely surprised. The specific kind of surprise that a person of exceptional intelligence experiences when someone else’s intelligence exceeds their expectations.

Bob Dylan laughed for 4 seconds. Then Bob Dylan stopped laughing. Then Bob Dylan was quiet for 3 seconds in the way that Bob Dylan was quiet when Bob Dylan was thinking rather than performing thought. Then Bob Dylan said, “You’re right.” The producer in the booth, a man named Gerald Sherman, who had been working in television for 14 years, said afterward that in 14 years of live television production, he had never heard Bob Dylan say those two words in a public forum.

Gerald Sherman said he had worked with Bob Dylan on two previous occasions and had observed Bob Dylan in numerous other contexts and that you’re right was not a phrase that Bob Dylan deployed easily or often because Bob Dylan had spent 24 years being right about music in ways that other people eventually caught up with. And the experience of being right ahead of everyone else does not generally produce a man who says you’re right readily when someone else makes a point.

The host of the program, a journalist named Patricia Wells, who had been interviewing musicians for 12 years, said afterward that the 11 seconds between Bob Dylan’s assessment and Bob Dylan saying, “You’re right,” were the most extraordinary 11 seconds of television she had been present for. Patricia Wells said that what she witnessed in those 11 seconds was not a debate or a confrontation or a celebrity exchange of competing opinions.

Patricia Wells said what she witnessed was one musician recognizing another musician as an equal, which was in the specific context of Bob Dylan in 1986, not something that happened in public very often. The interview continued for another 42 minutes after those 11 seconds. The conversation between Bob Dylan and Keith Richards in the remaining 42 minutes was described by everyone who watched it as fundamentally different from the first 8 minutes.

The host, Patricia Wells, who had been conducting music interviews for 12 years and understood the difference between the performance of conversation and actual conversation, said that at approximately the 9-minute mark, something shifted in the studio. That the formal interview, architecture dissolved, and what replaced it was something less structured and more genuine.

Bob Dylan and Keith Richards talked about influence and originality and the blues and what it meant to build on a tradition without being consumed by it. They talked about specific recordings and specific musicians with the specificity of two people who had spent their entire adult lives thinking about these things and rarely found another person who had thought about them with equivalent care.

They talked about where music came from and where music was going and whether those two questions were actually one question or two. Patricia Wells said afterward that she had asked approximately four questions in the remaining 42 minutes because Bob Dylan and Keith Richards did not require questions. They required only a room and a camera and the shared understanding that what they were saying together was worth recording carefully.

She said it was the best interview she had ever conducted and that she had conducted the smallest part of it. After the program, Bob Dylan and Keith Richards were in the corridor outside the studio when the host Patricia Wells passed them. Patricia Wells said she did not stop because she did not want to interrupt.

She observed them for approximately 30 seconds from a distance. She said they were talking with the ease of people who had known each other for years rather than people who had met for the first time 2 hours earlier. She said that something had shifted between them during the broadcast that the broadcast had made permanent rather than temporary.

She continued down the corridor and did not look back. She said in her account of that evening that she had decided in that moment not to interrupt the conversation because some conversations are more valuable than any question a journalist might ask and that the conversation she had observed for 30 seconds in the corridor outside the studio was one of them.

She had been a music journalist for 12 years. She recognized the difference. Bob Dylan and Keith Richards have maintained their friendship across four decades. They have appeared together at various events, most significantly at the concert for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995, where people who were present described them as inseparable for most of the evening, occupying the same corner of the backstage area and talking with the concentrated attention of people who only have a limited amount of time together and intend to use it

well. Bob Dylan has spoken about Keith Richards in interviews with the specific thoughtful care that Bob Dylan reserves for musicians whose work Bob Dylan considers genuinely important rather than merely culturally prominent. Keith Richards has spoken about Bob Dylan in similar terms with the specific respect of someone who recognizes in another person a commitment to music that goes deeper than career.

Neither Bob Dylan nor Keith Richards has made a public statement specifically about how the friendship began or about the November 1986 interview. Bob Dylan has not mentioned the 11 seconds. Keith Richards has not mentioned the sentence. The interview exists in the archive. The 11 seconds are there. The laugh is there. The two words are there.

What is also there for anyone who watches the interview from its beginning and pays attention to the shift that happens at the 9-minute mark is the specific moment when two people who thought they were appearing on a television program discovered they were actually talking to each other. What Keith Richards said in that one sentence has never been officially reported.

The people who were in the studio that evening, Gerald Sherman, Patricia Wells, the floor crew, the two camera operators, the makeup artist who was watching from the side of the set, have described the sentence in consistent terms. They have described its effect. They have described Bob Dylan’s laugh and Bob Dylan’s silence and Bob Dylan’s two words.

They have not repeated the sentence itself in the specific understanding that the sentence was said between two musicians on a television program and that its power resided in the specific context of that exchange and would not survive removal from it intact. What can be said is this. Keith Richards said something to Bob Dylan about Bob Dylan’s music that used Bob Dylan’s own observation about Keith Richards as its starting point and arrived somewhere that Bob Dylan had not anticipated.

Keith Richards turned Bob Dylan’s assessment 90° and showed Bob Dylan something about the music they had both spent their lives making that Bob Dylan recognized immediately as true. And Bob Dylan said, “You’re right.” Two words said by Bob Dylan in public on live television in 1986 to Keith Richards in response to a single sentence Keith Richards had said about music.

Two words that Gerald Sherman, who had worked with Bob Dylan on two previous occasions, said he had never heard Bob Dylan say in a public forum. Two words that Patricia Wells, who had been interviewing musicians for 12 years, said were the most significant two words she had heard in those 12 years. Not because of their content, but because of who said them and what it cost to say them and what it meant that Keith Richards had produced them in 11 seconds from a conversation that began with Bob Dylan calling Keith Richards’s music derivative. And Keith Richards and

Bob Dylan have been close friends for nearly 40 years. The sentence did its work in 11 seconds on the evening of November 3rd, 1986. The work has been ongoing ever since. If this story moved you, subscribe and leave a comment below. Have you ever said something to someone that turned a potential disagreement into an unexpected and lasting connection? Tell us about it in the comments below.

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