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TIL that the Beach Boys' song "Never Learn Not to Love" started as a demo written for the band by Charles Manson titled "Cease To Exist". Manson was not credited as a songwriter due to the fact that he "exchanged his official writing credit for a sum of cash and a motorcycle".

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