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TIL that during rehearsals for a 2003 Saturday Night Live episode, Matthew McConaughey felt up the breasts of cast member Rachel Dratch while ad-libbing in-character. Dratch kept the rehearsal footage and in July of that year, showed footage of it on Late Night with Conan O'Brian.

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