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TIL Mariah Carey wrote a country song with Willie Nelson called “Right To Dream”

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YeYd TIL The Great Gatsby originally sold poorly (20,000 copies in the first year) and the author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, died believing himself to be a failure.
mxoJx TIL Edgar Allen Poe died mysteriously after having been missing for six days. Though still alive when he was finally found, he was wearing someone else’s cheap clothes and not coherent enough to tell where he’d been. He had disappeared en route to his own wedding.
E1690 TIL the Bon Jovi song “August 7, 4:15”’was written about the strange death of his tour manager’s daughter who was just 6. She was found at the side of the road just a few houses away from her house. Her cause of death was blunt force trauma but what killed her remains speculation today.
wLJlY TIL that Apple does not allow villains to use iPhones onscreen in TV and movies - something to watch out for from now on!
gr7jX TIL that the original Pink Floyd managers (Jenner and King) decided to represent Syd Barrett when he left in 1968, dissolving their agreement with the others as they saw no future in the band without Barrett.