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TIL Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was accidentally named after a deodorant. Bikini Kill singer Kathleen Hanna (bandmate of Kurt Cobain's then-girlfriend Tobi Vail) jokingly scrawled the phrase on his wall, insulting him. Cobain mistook it for a revolutionary phase.

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