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TIL in the wake of the creepy clown trend, a 2016 "Clown Lives Matter" peace walk was scheduled in Tucson to demonstrate that "clowns are not psycho killers"; but the event had to be cancelled due to multiple death threats to the clowns.

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nWlYb TIL about Tobia Nicotra, a prolific Italian forger whose forgeries have been found in the Library of Congress and the Metropolitan Opera. He visited the U.S. in 1932 and led an orchestra impersonating Riccardo Drigo, a composer who had died two years earlier.
0wNLy TIL The Unabomber was a subject in CIA MK Ultra experiments at Harvard that may have shaped his personality for his future bombings
Q0gL TIL that DeVry University is a publicly traded corporation whose goal, above all others, is to make a profit.
JWxQ TIL that when Nike was shooting their commercial in Kenya using Samburu tribesmen, one of them was supposed to say “Just do it” in native Maa, but instead he said, “I don’t want these. Give me big shoes.” Nike responded with: “we thought nobody in America would know what he said.”
woJWW TIL the Empire State Building was referred to as the Empty State Building during the Great Depression. One original tenant, a jeweler, had a place there from 1931 to 2008