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TIL clowns can copyright their unique face makeup by painting it on an egg and sending it to the Clowns International Egg Registry, and you can see the full display at the Clowns Gallery Museum in Somerset, England

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XE9Pk TIL: prosecutors have absolute immunity for falsification of evidence and the coercion of witnesses
4kVbg TIL The Carpinteria Tar Pits at Carpinteria State Beach in Santa Barbara are one of five natural asphalt lake areas in the world, 2nd in size to and older than the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. These tar pits date back to the Pleistocene Age (Ice Epoch), 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago.
rNBrx TIL scientists made snails remember something that never happened to them
7LNr TIL Afraid of flying, Muhammad Ali spent his first flight praying with the parachute strapped to his back. He was heading to Rome.
XEjwr TIL that 1,418 entrance steps (one for each day the Soviet Union fought in the WWII) of the new 95m-tall “Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces” are forged from melted-down hardware seized from Nazi troops.