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TIL Keith Moon once tried to put a hotel waterbed mattress in an elevator as a prank but it burst. He complained to the manager and convinced them it leaked and ruined his stage clothes. The hotel apologized and moved them to the antiques-filled Presidential Suite, which they demolished that night.

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