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TIL that Leonard Cohen wrote about 150 different verses for Hallelujah, and that he sung different versions of it at different concerts

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1ErP TIL of Kim Gwang Suk, a North Korean gymnast who competed at the Barcelona Olympics; her age was given as 17, but she was missing her front teeth and may have been as young as 10. Aside from an Olympic torch relay, her subsequent life and whereabouts are unknown.
4k4BJ TIL that the Air Ministry imposed a blackout of all man made lights across London because they forecasted they would be targeted for night time air raids. This was before war was declared.
b68BE TIL that Erranatti Mangamma became a mother of two twins at 73 years old and holds the record for having given birth at the highest age
W7DB4 TIL that Pudding Lane in London, later famous as the starting place of the Great Fire, was also one of the world’s first one-way streets. In 1617 carts were ordered to move only one way, an experiment not repeated in London until Albemarle Street in 1800.
v1gG8 TIL that when an animatronic langur infant was used to film wild langurs, the monkeys adopted it--until it was eventually dropped and ceased movement, at which point the monkeys believed it had died and gathered together to mourn the dead infant