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TIL It took Leonard Cohen 5 years to write 'Hallelujah'

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EgPbV TIL where the "Did a dingo eat your baby?" joke from The Rugrats Movie came from. Based on a real case, the Evil Angels film has a scene where the murder-accused mother says, "The dingo took my baby!" It gets misquoted in a bunch of shows as "a dingo ate my baby."
dap8 TIL the rating on the IMDB page for This is Spinal Tap goes to 11
nWoPP TIL the inventor of the "pop up" later apologized for his invention after seeing how his creation had been used for pop-up advertising
BgyOd TIL Switzerland has the highest labour share of GDP in the world. Labour share of GDP is the relative share of output which is paid as compensation to employees, comprising wages and social protection transfers
oBQJ7 TIL about the Himalayan 'Skeleton Lake', a lake at an altitude of about 5000 m, known for the hundreds of ancient human skeletons, the remains belonging to very different eras and to different distinct groups (Indian, South Asian and Mediterranean), whose cause of death remains a mystery though.