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Today I learned that in the debut single of famous rapper Juice WRLD, "All Girls Are The Same," he compares himself to legendary musician John Lennon, inciting how both of them are jealous guys. He coincidentally died on the same day as him, December 8th, but 39 years after Lennon died in 1980.

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