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TIL there is a registry for clowns (no not that one). Unique clown face designs are registered - on an egg.

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N7Qp6 TIL In St. Petersburg, Russia, The hermitage Cats have been protecting the Hermitage Museum’s priceless art from rodents since the Museum opened its doors in 1764. The museum has a press secretary dedicated to the cats.
grv5X TIL the world’s first newspaper horoscope happened because British newspapers ran out of stuff to talk about when Princess Margaret was born in 1930.
4wDa TIL the day after liberation, a group of 40 prisoners from Buchenwald tracked down one of the escaped guards in a nearby town, brought him back to camp, and made him hang himself
gMgPW TIL pope Benedict IX is the only person who has been pope on more than one occasion. He was notorious for selling the papacy and reclaiming the office afterwards twice, making him pope three times in 1032 to 1044, from April to May 1045 and from 1047 to 1048.
R5kJ8 TIL Troll dolls were invented in 1959 by a Danish fisherman who couldn’t afford to buy his daughter a Christmas present. At its peak, 38,000 trolls were sold everyday until the hype faded away.