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TIL about "Deafheads" who held balloons against their bodies in order to hear/feel the music at Grateful Dead concerts

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epapJ TIL Walter Mondale became the first major candidate to ever lose election in all 50 states after losing the 2002 US Senate election in Minnesota, the only state that voted for him in the 1984 US Presidential election
DEjD TIL in 1978, Queen arranged for topless girls to ride bikes on stage during their live performance of “Fat Bottomed Girls” at Madison Square Garden.
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