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TIL Jim Varney (of Earnest P. Worrell fame) was an accomplished Appalachian dulcimer player and played on the final episode of the Chevy Chase talk show

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E1b0p TIL Jorunna parva, popularly known as "sea bunny", is a highly toxic species of sea slugs. The toxic nature of the species has been studied for their enormous benefit to humankind in medicine and biomedical research, particularly in cancer treatments.
gMW9 TIL Google has a “unsupervised” neural network that learned what a cat was while searching the Internet
XOJP TIL Roger Ebert gave a half-star review to the Power Rangers movie: “What depresses me inutterably is that children, who are fresh and inquisitive, will go to this movie and, for 88 minutes, the movie will do what it can to deaden their imaginations. ”
VxWD TIL The Word “meme” was coined by Biologist Richard Dawkins to refer to ideas that spread and replicate in a Darwinian fashion
x6rBg TIL that film director Charles Stone III (Drumline) created the famous Budweiser commercial "Whassup?".