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TIL: Always Sunny’s creator Rob McElhenny allowed writers from ‘Game of Thrones’ to pen the episode 'Flowers for Charlie’ where Charlie Day is made smart by a scientist and changes completely as a result only to later learn that only his ego had changed.

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