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TIL Steve-O was a clown and graduated from Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College

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9j67 TIL that in the U.S., there were animal abuse laws before child abuse laws.
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yDya TIL that Merry-Go-Rounds go clockwise while Carousels go counterclockwise.
R5gr8 TIL about the dispute over Jewish assets in dormant Swiss bank accounts in the 1990s turned into Switzerland’s biggest foreign policy crisis since the Second World War. On August 12, 1998, a billion-dollar settlement was reached.
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