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TIL that “pipe dream” is a euphimism for opium dream

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Bgmbk 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
KO8O9 TIL that "The Bard's Tale" was the best selling computer RPG of the 1980's, with 400K copies sold.
x6jg0 TIL Disney refused to let a father use a Spiderman headstone for his 4 year old son’s funeral.
Z8P4G TIL that multi-platinum R&B/Pop singer Keri Hilson dissed Beyonce and received overwhelming backlash, causing her to fall into a 9-year depression. She hasn't released any music in 9 years and now considers herself washed up. She's only 37 years old.
EPaw TIL on the night of Grigori Rasputin’s assassination, he was poisoned with enough cyanide to kill five men, shot four times, bound in a rug, and then tossed in a river. An autopsy showed that he died by drowning.