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TIL the artist Sia released an album compiled of rejected songs originally ghostwritten for A-List artists

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GYxL5 TIL Alec Baldwin, Marilyn Monroe, Clint Eastwood, Sally Field, Richard Gere, Katherine Hepburn, and Ashley Judd are all descendants of original Mayflower settlers.
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