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A early Nineties advert for Modelo

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It was when they were rebranding from Modelo Prisunic.

The time when Burger King had restaurants under their own name

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Other than just Hungry Jack's.  

Channel 5's launch video

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A reworked cover of Manfred Mann's "5-4-3-2-1" by the Spice Girls titled "1-2-3-4-5".

The Kinks' last big hit in their home country

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"Come Dancing" peaked at number 12 in the United States back in 1983, whereas it proved to be their last American top ten hit, peaking at number six the previous year.

Brownstone's signature song

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They were signed to Michael Jackson's vanity label MJJ Music back in the mid Nineties and Canadian singer Tory Lanez later sampled it for his song "Say It".

As featured in the film The Substance

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It's this house song right here.

When someone deliberately calls you by a different name to annoy you

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The moment in question? Jim Everett confronting Jim Rome during the latter's ESPN2 show Talk2  in April 6, 1994.

There were plans for RTP to launch their own music channel

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It would've been their competitor to MTV Portugal and was going to launch around 2012.

I'm going to say it but what the heck

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Black Eyed Peas' "Where is the Love?" still resonates to this day.

This 2001 single by Garbage...

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It should've been a bigger hit as comparable to say "Stupid Girl", "Push It" and so on.

On this day 12 years ago...

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Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner became the first person to break the sound barrier relative to the surface without vehicular power when he jumped to Earth from a helium balloon from the stratosphere as part of the Red Bull Stratos project.

Today's the second Monday of October

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As it's Indigenous Peoples' Day in the United States and screw Columbus Day because if you think about it, Christopher Columbus was no hero when it came to exploring the Americas.