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TIL that Chris Rock picks small venues (50 people) and shows up unannounced to give new comedic routines (hundreds to thousands) in order to find out what jokes work/doesn’t.

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p8KR8 TIL serial killer Carroll Cole, responsible for the deaths of at least 15 women, killed his first victim at just 8 years of age, drowning a classmate in a lake. The death was thought to have been an accident until he confessed in an autobiography he wrote in prison.
1a90V TIL Rihanna is the richest female musician in the world, although most of her wealth was created from her partnerships with Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy.
mOGP TIL: Up until 1978, the Mormon Church taught that blacks were once an evil race of Jews who were coloured by God for their wickedness
a8pMy TIL Philippines President Ferdinand E. Marcos, who was considered a dictator during the 70's and 80's, used the following campaign slogan: "This nation can be great again"
44W5 TIL that as an American. This will be the first Veterans Day observed without a living World War One veteran.