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a8YeN TIL that Leonard Cohen wrote about 150 different verses for Hallelujah, and that he sung different versions of it at different concerts
ADQlw TIL that Salvator Dali once gave Alice Cooper a plaster sculpture of his brain, crowned by a chocolate eclair with real ants running down the middle. He asked Cooper to model for him. Which he did, under armed guard, since he was wearing a diamond tiara provided by Dali worth $2 million.
worQ7 TIL John Casablancas, the founder of Elite Modeling, married a 17 year old when he was 50
d8Or8 TIL When the # and * keys were first put on phones they had no purpose whatsoever and were only included because touch tone phones could create up to twelve tones.
Me4Va TIL the only known recording of a person born in the 18th century was a recitation of a Hamlet: "Give every man thy ear but few thy voice." The speaker was Helmuth von Moltke, a man known for saying very little.