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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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KaxJ TIL: Klingon was the chosen language for the Welsh government in its response to queries about UFO sightings at Cardiff Airport.
M7Okb TIL the day before his Assassination, Julius Ceasar held a dinner party where he was asked what the best way to die would be. He responded that a sudden and unexpected death would be ideal. One of his assassins, Decimus, was sitting right across from him.
mxdbM TIL: A study found that subjects who played Portal showed an increase in certain cognitive abilities, whereas subjects who played the "brain training game" Lumosity showed none.
wnV7 TIL The Singer Sewing Machine Company built 500 1911 pistols for the US Government in 1939 and they are one of the most collectable firearms of that era.
woD7E TIL in 2017 a 4-yr-old girl in Siberia awoke to find her grandmother was sick and not moving. After talking to her blind grandfather, she decided to walk 5 miles alone in temperatures as low as -34°C (-29°F) over several hours to the next homestead in order to find help, which she successfullly did.