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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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V6Xm TIL George Washington’s Farewell address warned America about political parties and foreign influences tearing America apart.
x6Egk TIL that lato-lato were actually banned in the US in the 1970s as Clackers because of material that would shatter, then fly into your face and injure you.
kODa5 TIL in 1948, when Britain started their publicly funded National Health Service (NHS), the American Medical Association (AMA) ran an unprecedented campaign to turn public opinion against a national health service in USA, which had wide spread support at the end of World War 2.
9wkVM TIL: For centuries, physicians blamed behavioral changes (especially among the mentally ill) on the pull of the moon. The word “lunatic,” stemmed from this idea.
QJWJa TIL In 1944 Franklin Roosevelt was gifted a letter opener made out of the arm bone of a Japanese soldier but had to return it due to the shock and outrage it caused in Japan and the U.S.