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TIL Tracy Morgan was married with three kids and living on welfare when he got his role on Saturday Night Live

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LQLNd TIL: There is an Italian study on Clown doctors and hospital clowns on the effectiveness of Clown Care Units. The humor and relief provided by medical clowns have a proven positive effect on patient health. However, the study goes deeper into how clown makeup, joke themes, and skill matters.
m1rQp TIL about the May 18,1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, which was the most disastrous volcanic eruption to occur in the contiguous United States since the much smaller 1915 eruption of Lassen Peak in California.
1aQrW TIL that the Mexican government sent around 500 of it's elite soldiers to be trained as commandos at Ft. Bragg(USA), in order to better combat the rising drug violence in the country. After training, many of the soldiers returned to Mexico, only to start the brutally violent drug cartel: Los Zetas.
grdp8 TIL Present-day giant pandas are estimated to have diverged from their closest relatives, all other bears 20 million years ago, based on molecular data
XND TIL that a Buddha statuette from India was found in Sweden at an excavation of a Viking village