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T.I.L. that Clowns International, the oldest clown registry in the world, keeps a gallery of eggs painted with individual member’s makeup patterns. Whenever a member dies, their egg is smashed. It works as a form of copyright.

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p8aVQ TIL after a Japanese Destroyer rammed the ship Naval Lieutenant John F. Kennedy was on during WW2, Kennedy swam for 5 hours towards an island while towing one of his badly burned crewman by clasping a scrap of the crewman's lifejacket between his teeth despite sustaining a back injury from the crash
Zpd0D TIL that Charles Darwin's grandfather invented the buy one get one free deal to sell more pottery
EgKpp TIL that almost all of Louis XIV's body was destroyed during the French Revolution. However, a piece of his mummified heart was kept by the Archbishop of York, who showed it to the Dean of Westminster, who ate it.
8ajrL TIL a folly is a building constructed primarily for decoration, but of such extravagant appearance that it transcends the range of usual garden buildings. Many follies, particularly during times of famine, such as the Great Famine in Ireland, were built as a form of poor relief, to provide employme
e0e1D TIL that the person who played 8-year-old Grinch in The Grinch (2000) was actually an 18 year old with dwarfism and passed away two years after the release of the film