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TIL The "Clown Song" is actually called "Entry of the Gladiators" and it was meant as a military marching song.

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e0GM4 TIL our modern interpretation of Santa Claus with a red outfit and white beard is due in large part to holiday Coca-Cola ads that began in 1931.
BgZ6K TIL Star Trek and Mission Impossible and other hit shows were produced by Lucile Ball and her husbands production company.
ZpvNp Today I learned that Zip code stands for Zone Improvement Plan. Thanks Snapple!
9L57 TIL a staff writer for The New Yorker came to the office every day from 1964 to his death in 1996 – and never published a single story
XLk6 TIL that the actor Chris Pratt was at one point homeless in Maui, sleeping in a tent on the beach working only enough hours to afford gas, food and fishing supplies