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Mini-Stories: Volume 15

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A laptop manufacturer came to the Windows team and reported a serious problem. It turns out when they played a song by one specific artist, it crashed their laptops. But things got even weirder when they started testing it out. They found that this song crashed some of their competitors' laptops also. This is Janet Jackson's 1989 smash hit Rhythm Nation.

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