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TIL: Christopher Walken, James Earl Jones, John de Lancie, and John Astin have all recorded a version of Edgar Allan Poes’ “The Raven”. Bonus Vincent Price version in comments

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eGyk TIL to honor the Breaking Bad series finale in 2013, an Albuquerque mental health clinic gave away two 12-week scholarships to their “Breaking Addiction” program to addicts unable to afford treatment. Applicants had to write personal stories about their struggles with addiction.
9db6 TIL the first US Special Forces deployed to Afghanistan after 9/11 actually rode HORSES into combat with the Taliban.
x6Al1 TIL the Treasury Dept. official in charge of the money laundering investigation of Sothebys, and the hi-value art market, was named Scott Rembrandt.
ZE8a TIL that in the ‘90s a batch of pencils by the Bureau for At-Risk-Youth with the slogan “Too Cool To Do Drugs” were recalled for saying “Cool to Do Drugs” and “Do Drugs” as they were sharpened.
p8xQ8 TIL of Friedrich Wilhelm Voight, a German man who in 1906 impersonated a Prussian military officer and rounded up a group of soldiers in order to steal over 4,000 marks from the municipal treasury of Köpenick