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TIL that when Rob Reiner approached Mark Knopfler to do the soundtrack to "The Princess Bride" (1987), Knopfler agreed on one condition; that Reiner would include the hat he wore in "This is Spinal Tap" (1984) somewhere in the film. The cap appears in several shots in Fred Savage's bedroom

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