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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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8M5a TIL Michigan was the third jurisdiction in the world, after the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and Liechtenstein, to abolish the death penalty. They did so shortly after entering the Union, in 1846.
wLmOM TIL Kano Jigoro, the father of Judo, asked to be buried in his white belt to be remembered as a learner and not the black belt master that he was.
MerJA TIL that the inventor of the windshield wipers, a simple yet necessary car accessory, was a woman. Mary Andersen filed her patent in 1903 and called her invention a "window cleaning device" for electric cars and other vehicles.
M7pR0 TIL that before French (Francien) was standardized by Francis I of France in 1539, the Occitan language was widespread in educated Europe during the Middle Ages. It was even spoken by Richard I of England.
XJwE TIL of the existence of the short-lived Florida-based nation State of Muskogee, which was founded in 1799 in an attempt to resist the expansion of the United States with the assistance of southeastern native tribes