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    Fast Facts: Sept. 9

    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.

    The last reel-to-reel tape manufacturer in America closed its doors in January 2005.

    Best-selling posthumous hit of all time: “”(Just Like) Starting Over,”” by John Lennon.

    Music videos were originally known as telerecords.

    Mick Jagger had the emerald filling on his front tooth replaced with a diamond because people kept telling him he had spinach in his teeth.

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