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TIL Leonard Cohen's Song 'Chelsea Hotel #2' Was Written About How He Did Sex With Janis Joplin.

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0weML TIL that in addition to being the NBA's leading scorer with 38,387 points, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is also a professional writer who contributes to Time Magazine, The Washington Post, and has also written books which are New York Times best sellers.
8K48 TIL that the movie White Chicks was nominated for five Razzies, including the Worst Picture, Worst Actress, Worst Director, Worst Screenplay and Worst Screen Couple. Film critic Richard Roeper even put the film as the #1 worst film of 2004.
Z8P84 TIL Pomp and Circumstance was originally composed for the coronation of King Edward VII, but after it was played when the composer received an honorary degree from Yale, more and more schools just started using it as well until it became the default graduation tune
LkaM9 Today I learned that guests at a wedding in Serbia accidentally shot down a small plane with celebratory gunfire.
e0BPk TIL that there’s a mountain range on Antarctica, similar to the size of the alps, that no one has ever seen because it’s completely covered by ice.