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TIL Louis CK dropped his management agency because they asked Joe Rogan to apologize to Carlos Mencia for outing him as a joke theif.

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jNA8a TIL that the Queen christened the British Royal Navy's new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth with a bottle of single malt Scotch whisky from the Bowmore distillery on the island of Islay instead of champagne because the ship had been built and launched in Scotland.
0w1Ap TIL - James Barry, surgeon, born Margaret Ann Bulley lived her entire life as a man in the 1800's in order to be accepted into the medical profession. All of her successes were buried for 100 years when this was discovered.
GAl7Q TIL: About Stan Larkin, who lived for 555 days without a heart before finally receiving a transplant.
bRn0 TIL Tony Hawk asked ska band Goldfinger for an “odd song that wasn’t on the album” for his video game, and was given Superman. It became their most popular song, thanks to the game.
ElQ7 TIL - Vermont abolished slavery in 1777, while it was still independent, and when it joined the United States as the 14th state in 1791 it was the first state to join untainted by slavery.