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

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9YVwr TIL that Action Park, a New Jersey theme park which opened in 1978, was infamous for being poorly constructed, with at least six guests killed by the rides. It featured a water slide which was closed after only a month, and which supposedly decapitated a crash test dummy during safety testing.
gr9eW TIL The 10,000 ton London Bridge was dismantled and rebuilt in Lake Havasu, Arizona
gMRg7 TIL that if farmers don't properly dry the hay they're baling, the hay bales can spontaneously combust
rRWOe TIL: The longest known brooding period for any species on the planet goes to the Graneledone boreopacifica, an octopus that guards its eggs for an astounding 4.5 years.
WJe4 TIL the pom-pom crab defends itself by carrying two anemones at all times