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TIL that South Carolina law prohibits anyone over age 18 from dressing up as a clown.

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doyK TIL the morning of Super Bowl XLI, Don Mischer asked Prince if he would be ok to perform in the rain. Prince responded simply, “Can you make it rain harder”?
EgglW TIL that Scotts Miracle-Gro Company knowingly sold poisoned bird seed for over 2 years. They sold 70+ million bags of bird seed with a pesticide toxic to birds to help with insect control during storage. Scotts paid a fine of $4 million and give an additional $500,000 donation to wildlife study.
yQ5ne TIL when the band Judas Priest appeared on The Simpsons, they were mistakenly defined as “death metal”. The producers decided to apologize for the mistake by having Bart Simpson write “Judas Priest is not ‘Death Metal’” in the opening sequence chalkboard gag.
5L6r TIL Christopher Lloyd was 37 in 1975 when he landed his first movie role “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” He’s been in a movie nearly every year since and has been in 124 movies to date.
E16KX TIL That the song "What's the frequency, Kenneth?" by R.E.M. is a reference to an incident in which Dan Rather was assaulted by a man who repeatedly shouted "Kenneth, what is the frequency?"