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TIL in the 1970s, musician Gordon Sumner of Wallsend, England, had a habit of wearing a black and yellow jumper with hooped stripes when playing with a jazz band in northern England. The bandleader thought it made him look like a bee or a wasp, prompting the nickname "Sting".

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