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TIL the 1970s band ABBA wore tax-deductible stage clothing, which under Swedish law had to be so extravagant or unusual that they couldn't reasonably be worn in everyday life. Band member Björn Ulvaeus in 2014 said, "Nobody can have been as badly dressed on stage as we were."

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