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TIL despite MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This" hitting #1 in many countries and helping the "Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em" album stay at #1 in the US for 21 weeks, it only peaked at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 and he had 4 higher charting hits in the US

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