Nov. 6, 1993
We still don’t really know what “that” is, do we? Not that it ever mattered: on this date 19 years ago, Meat Loaf dug in for his first of five weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 with “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That).”

He does say what “that” in the song. Seriously did anyone really listen to the song?
That’s what it is. It’s that he wouldn’t cheat on her. Apparently it’s actually a lot more than that, if Wikipedia is...