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TIL of the letter Leonard Cohen wrote to his love and muse, Marianne Ilhen on her deathbed. This is how a poet says goodbye

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kkg7 TIL in 2001, the United States Court of Appeals upheld the right of Alice Randall to publish a parody of ‘Gone with the Wind’ called 'The Wind Done Gone’, which told the same story from the point of view of Scarlett O'Hara’s slaves, who were glad to be rid of her.
DQvmD TIL about the Amami rabbit, a native of Ōshima, that is reminiscent of ancient rabbits and only exists on two small islands in Japan.
oRmDL TIL there was a quite a few cases of heavily insured airplane passengers blowing themselves up in the 50s/60s.
kNV7 TIL a chatbot lawyer that helped overturn more than 170K unlawful parking tickets is now providing free legal advice to homeless people.
lRwV TIL that during WW2 Peru deported its entire Japanese ethnic population to the US to live in the Camps