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TIL Dane Cook has Laugh Factory's endurance record of performing for 7 hours straight, beating previous record held by Dave Chappelle by 38 minutes.

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6MYl TIL that Texas cancelled its last meal program after an inmate ordered two chicken fried steaks, a triple-meat bacon cheeseburger, a large bowl of fried okra, a pound of barbecue, three fajitas, a meat lover’s pizza, a pint of ice cream, and a slab of peanut butter fudge and didn’t eat any of it.
XExX6 TIL astronomer Fritz Zwicky - the first to conceive of dark matter, supernovas, and neutron stars - wrote in 1961 that the way to reach other stars is by accelerating the sun via nuclear fusion, and having it drag all the planets along. He warned that if the US didn't pursue this, the Russians would
x6LxD TIL the United States Postal Service (USPS) delivers a whopping 44% of the world's mail
PWNg TIL that Clovis I (of what is now France) lamented that in his old age he had no relatives, and was lonely (having murdered many of them). His surviving relatives, hearing this, came to him with offers of their friendship and forgiveness. Clovis then promptly had them killed.
kO8W7 TIL that the second largest Air Force in the world is the US navy