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TIL that Copium isn’t just a meme phrase, but a type of bug

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BOEL TIL in a private cemetery in small-town Arkansas, a woman single-handedly buried and gave funerals to more than 40 gay men during the height of the AIDS epidemic, when their families wouldn’t claim them.
xgnk TIL that in “Titanic” Jack Dawson claims to have gone ice fishing in Wissota Lake which is a man-made lake and wasn’t formed until 5 years after the Titanic sunk
loaBa TIL it took 750 artists making over 2 million sketches to create the 1937 Disney animation, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The final movie was comprised of 250,000 individual drawings.
dwQ9 TIL that Lentil As Anything, a successful Australian restaurant, allows its customers to pay whatever price they feel for the food.
BrE7D TIL the Spongebob producers originally used royalty-free marching music at the end of "Band Geeks," but couldn't find music they liked. They instead used David Glen Eisley's "Sweet Victory." The song went from nearly unknown to selling 300,000 downloads on iTunes within a year of the episode airing.