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TIL The vibrator was the fifth domestic product to be electrified and became so a decade before the vacuum and Iron

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vP8AK TIL that after attending a Queen concert in LA, Michael Jackson suggested to Freddie Mercury that the band should release "Another One Bites The Dust" as a single. After doing so, the song became a worldwide hit, spending 15 weeks in the Billboard Top 10, and is Queen’s bestselling single to date.
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