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TIL that Archie Comics Jughead Jones' iconic "crown" is actually a style of hat known as a whoopee cap. Made of a fedora with the brim cut and folded upwards, it was a style of hat popular in the mid-20th century. Youths often decorated their caps with buttons or bottlecaps, as seen in Jughead's cap

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