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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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1aBQ7 TIL two surfers Andrew Cooper and Alex Schulze started the 4ocean movement and now has 27 operations around the world and has collected 4 million pounds of trash since 2017.
gmBD TIL William Banning (father of a soldier who was killed in the Korean war) sent his son’s purple heart, and an angry letter to Harry Truman, blaming him for his son’s death. Both items were found in Truman’s desk after he died 20 years later.
5VAPQ TIL after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the USS West Virginia battleship was salvaged six months later. During the salvage operation, a calendar was discovered in an airtight room indicating three sailors survived for another 16 days after the event.
R7mQl TIL that having a substantial amount of fat in the buttocks that extends to the front and back thighs and tapers to knee, causing a curvaceous figure, is called “steatopygia”
e0OKL TIL that the hairstyle Perm is short for Permanent.