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TIL Frank Sinatra hated his hit song "Strangers in the Night." He thought it was "a piece of shit" and called it "the worst fucking song" he had ever heard. Sinatra almost didn't record it because it sounded like it was "about two f*gs who meet in the bus station bathroom."

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