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TIL when Nirvana's opening band, Calamity Jane, got booed off stage at a concert in Buenos Aires, Nirvana decided to teach the crowd a lesson. So before every song of their set, they'd play the intro to "Smells Like Teen Spirit" & then just stop before continuing on to play an obscure song of theirs

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