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TIL Thomas Kincaid, who described himself as a born again Christian and painter of a “morally superior art,” pissed in public on a Winnie the Pooh figure at the Disneyland Hotel while saying, “This one’s for you, Walt.” He died from overdosing on alcohol and valium in 2012.

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