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TIL Prince once played ping-pong against Michael Jackson at an LA studio. Prince asked, “You want me to slam it?” MJ didn’t, dropped his paddle and left with his bodyguard. Prince then started “strutting around like a rooster” and said “Did you see that? He played like Helen Keller.”

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