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TIL that in the 1980s Fats Domino decided he would no longer leave New Orleans, claiming he could not get any food that he liked any place else. He refused to go to his induction to the RocknRoll Hall of Fame and an invitation to play at the White House. (xpost from r/NewOrleans

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