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A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on February 24, 2014.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that PopMatters compared Justin Timberlake's "Not a Bad Thing" to 'N Sync's 1999 "(God Must Have Spent) A Little More Time on You", for sharing the same "emotional earnestness" and "heart-melter" characteristics?

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