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TIL Andre Agassi played a Davis Cup match in 1992 wearing a pair of Oakley sunglasses to hide the fact that he was hungover from the previous night’s drinking. Jim Jannard of Oakley then sent him a new Dodge Viper to thank him for the endorsement.

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