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TIL Johnny Cash has a younger brother called Tommy Cash, who is also a singer-songwriter and had songs like "I Didn't Walk the Line" and "My Mother's Other Son"

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vPjw8 TIL that Dave Coulier, the actor who played Joey Gladstone on “Full House,” has claimed to be the subject of Alanis Morissette’s hit song “You Oughta Know.” Bob Saget claimed to have been present at the dinner Alanis mentions in the song.
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