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TIL that researchers who have studied Coulrophobia, the fear of clowns, believe there is some correlation to the uncanny valley effect, in which a figure is lifelike enough to be disturbing, but not realistic enough to be pleasant.

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0Wgp TIL: In 1778 George Washington celebrated Independence day by giving his soldiers a double ration of rum.
LGkP TIL George S. Patton held a speech, so popular that it became known as “The Speech” where he justified his “chicken-shit drilling” by claiming “A man must be alert at all times. If not some German son-of-a-bitch will sneak up behind him and beat him to death with a sock full of shit.”
OGLLa TIL Princess Alice of Battenberg, the mother-in-law of Queen Elizabeth II, organized soup kitchens and orphanages during the Nazi occupation of Greece. She would give away her own food to people on the street and she hid Jews in her home. She was also born deaf.
WgOo TIL that astronaut helmets have a patch of Velcro inside of them so astronauts have a way to scratch their noses.