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TIL: In 2007, British Pop singer Lily Allen released a song about her lazy brother Alfie, who sits in his room all day watching TV and smoking weed. In the song she told him to grow up and get a job. Alfie Allen is probably better known today as the actor who plays Theon Greyjoy on Game of Thrones.

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