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TIL the song “Mah Nà Mah Nà,” made famous by the Muppets on “Sesame Street” and “The Muppet Show,” originally appeared in the Italian film “Svezia, inferno e paradiso” (“Sweden: Heaven and Hell”), a 1968 exploitation documentary film about wild sexual activity in Sweden.

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