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TIL in 1977, musician Jimmy Buffett was driving to Key West on the Seven Mile Bridge when the bridge got stuck in the open position causing a 3-hour delay to fix it. To kill time, he wrote the song "Margaritaville" while sitting on the hood of his car.

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