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TIL: Lebron James raised 6 million dollars for charity by televising “The Decision”

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BgLQx TIL: When Texas entered the Union as a slave state in 1845, a legal technicality created an ungoverned, lawless strip of land (which later became the Oklahoma panhandle). People from Kansas moved in to evade strict alcohol laws and the (unofficial) capital was called "Beer City".
9YbaM TIL:In 2005, 51% of graduating students at BYU were already married
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XEBL6 TIL It took Leonard Cohen 5 years to write 'Hallelujah'
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