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TIL: Leonard Cohen wrote more than 80 verses for Hallelujah before deciding which made the final cut for the song.

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vWkr TIL the average inmate at Alcatraz read 75-100 books per year.
4YZX TIL Since the dawn of civilization, roughly 12,000 B.C., to 2003 A.D., only 5 exabytes (5,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) of data has been created. Now, with the rise of the Internet’s influence in our daily lives, we produce this amount of data every two days.
gMNVb TIL of "Lost Dakota"- a small portion of the Dakota Territory that was not given to any state in the late 19th century and was subsequently forgotten for five years. It was later annexed by Montana and is uninhabited to this day, although it is reportedly "infested with grizzly bears".
BrXjK TIL that in 1963, some Barbie dolls came with a book entitled "How to Lose Weight" which advised "Don't eat!" and a bathroom scale permanently set at 110 lbs.
gr09A TIL there is actually a Lime Disease, not caused by deer ticks, but by exposure to lime juice and UV light