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TIL for Louis C.K.’s comedy tours he trains with boxing coaches. One of whom was Irish Mickey Ward the subject of the movie The Fighter.

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YpmWA TIL the painting "The Scream" was painted with a red sky accurately depicting the Norwegian sky at the time caused by the eruption of the Krakatoa volcano in Indonesia.
69WbW TIL about Intercollegiate Meat Judging. Where American Universities compete against one another to see which team can best evaluate cuts of beef, pork and lamb based on criteria such as quality, yield grading, and eye-balling the quantity of fat v. muscle.
B7XW TIL that there is an entire industry to help students cheat to get their degrees by having papers written by unemployed professors. If my students are using it, they don’t get caught for plagiarism because the papers are new. The company blames “the academic system” for being corruptable.
jDKn TIL during the 1964 Presidential election Fact magazine polled psychiatrists about the mental competence of Barry Goldwater. Goldwater successfully sued and as a result the psychiatric community created the Goldwater rule to prevent them from diagnosing people they haven’t personally examined
J1PA1 TIL the pan flute originated from Ancient Greece, and according to the mythology, the god, ‘Pæn’ or known in modern day as ‘Pan’ wove it out of river weeds, as his love interest transformed/ was transformed into one. The flute is also known as a ‘syrinx’, which was his interests’ name.