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Fast Facts: Oct. 20
October 20, 2010
- In 2004 Congress passed a $388 billion spending bill that included $25,000 for the study of mariachi music.
- Deborah Harry of Blondie worked briefly as a Playboy bunny.
- Even in the post-Taliban era, it’s still against the law in Afghanistan for a woman to sing on TV.
- Best-selling posthumous hit of all-time: “”Starting Over,”” by John Lennon.
- Jimi Hendrix made 26 jumps with the 101st Airborne Paratroopers in 1961.
- Music videos were originally known as tele-records.
