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TIL The album "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" has the songs Blowin in the Wind, A Hard Rain's a Gonna Fall, Don't Think Twice, It's Alright, and Girl From North Country... it was released THREE DAYS AFTER HIS 22ND BIRTHDAY.

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