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TIL Clowns have a special way of "copyrighting" their particular facepaint by painting their likeness on eggshells.

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VMomp TIL that if there are 23 people in a room, there’s a 50% chance that 2 of them share a birthday. If there are 70 people in a room, there’s a 99.9% chance that 2 if them share a birthday. This is called the Birthday Problem or Birthday Paradox
69owZ Today I learned about the Los Alfaques disaster where a boiling-liquid expanding-vapor explosion from a road tanker instantly destroyed everything in a 300ft radius killing 215 people
W76p4 TIL that after being denied having his dog in his dorm at Cambridge, famous poet Lord Byron got a pet bear since there was no rule against them.
NgZE TIL Some website re-cut the TV Series “Lost” and put it into Chronological order. Apparently, they don’t get on the island until the 2nd season.
QNgNk TIL New York City had a rat population of approximately 2,000,000 rats in 2014, but this number has likely decreased due to 2021 Tropical Storm Ida causing mass drownings.