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TIL a registry system in post-war England allowed clowns to copyright their makeup designs against imitators by painting them onto eggs.

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D1k5P TIL of Taylor Alexis Muhl, a human chimera. She is fraternal twin sisters in one body. She has birthmark in her chest as her left side is darker, the recessive twin body part. She also has two immune system causing her to be sickly in her teens. Now in her 30's she works as a model.
QND6L TIL Jerry Ross was the first human to be launched into space seven times, a world record that Ross now shares with one other NASA astronaut
0deEp TIL that in New Jersey, it is illegal for criminals to wear a bulletproof vest while committing a crime
kX6E TIL English writer Charles Foster and his eight year old son lived like badgers in a hole in the ground for several weeks. They ate worms and grasshoppers, and travelled by crawling on their stomachs.
LlVV TIL Alexander Graham Bell did not invent the telephone. It was originally invented by Antonio Meucci, however he could not afford the $10 to renew his ‘impending patent’. Alexander filed a patent for the idea and Antonio died before legal action could be taken.