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TIL unique clown makeup is memorialized on eggs in a museum; it’s a soft copyright method to prevent plagiarism

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neXDd TIL Freddy Krueger was inspired by Wes Craven's experience watching a man in a fedora outside his apartment. "Somehow he sensed that someone was watching, and he looked right up and into my eyes.” Craven retreated, but when he looked out his window again, the man was still there, staring up at him.
0wggL TIL in 2010 the Navy spent $14 million to alter the appearance of a San Diego naval building that resembles a Nazi swastika. After the project was completed in 2016, it still looked like a swastika.
gXO7 TIL North America used to have penguins.
Nlgb TIL: There is a shortwave radio station in Russia called UVB-76 that constantly emits a buzzing noise but recently sent out a message saying “Command 135 Initiated”
6BnQ TIL Virginia rounds up its sex offenders to be held at the courthouse during trick-or-treating hours.