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TIL The Smother Brother's Comedy Hour featured The Who in 1967. The performance ended with The Who destroying their instruments, aided by pyrotechnics. Keith Moon accidentally received 3x the normal explosives. The explosion sent cymbal shrapnel cut into Moon's arm and singed Townshend's hair.

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