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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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LkLB9 TIL A guy by the name of Diego Fazio can create mind blowing, hyper realistic drawings with just pencils.
nAv9 TIL Yao Ming was bred and raised by the Chinese government to be a basketball star
Bemx TIL: The richest 62 people in the world, have more money than the poorest 50% of the global population (3.562 billion people), combined.
VB1MQ TIL of the Salon Kitty, a high-class Berlin brothel used by the Nazi intelligence service, the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), for espionage purposes during World War II. Notable guests include Galeazzo Ciano (Mussolini's son-in-law), SS General Sepp Dietrich, Joseph Goebbels, and Reinhard Heydrich.
p8d8A TIL that Turkey Vultures have been & sometimes are still used to detect natural gas leaks from pipelines; the odor that gas companies add to gas (so we can detect it since it's odorless) is the same as rotting flesh, which leads the vultures to congregate in the sky in the area of the leak.