The iconic “holding up lighters at a concert” started at Woodstock — Master of Ceremonies Chip Monck said that if you lit candles, it would help to keep the rain away. The hillside was aglow, and the tradition carries to this day.

Jazz piano great Thelonious Monk was a ping pong master, once winning an unofficial championship that Metronome magazine sponsored for jazz musicians in 1960.

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