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TIL country singer and sausage magnate Jimmy Dean is buried beneath a 9 foot piano-shaped mausoleum with the epitaph, "Here Lies One Hell of a Man"

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wLDPE TIL Larry Brantley, the voice of Wishbone, got the gig after improvising about the dog's inner thoughts about a tennis ball for five minutes: "I walked out of the audition saying, 'I can't believe I just did five minutes about a tennis ball.' And then I got the job."
E99X TIL that Kim Jung Il wanted to make his father a quilt from the softest material in the world so he, with the help of the North Korean populace, killed 700,000 sparrows for their neck feathers.
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N7E8b Til On April 14th 2010 the main eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland began, impeding air travel in all of Europe for days
KYWR TIL that in the Dawn of The Dead movies, the zombies with missing limbs were played by actual amputees