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TIL professional clowns can patent their look by painting it on an egg.

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oBaeo TIL the Law and Order 'sound' includes 500 Japanese men
E1JNX TIL that when a dead whale washed up on an Oregon beach, they decided the best way to dispose of the body was to detonate it, unintentionally covering the townspeople in whale blood.
jK5E TIL George Orwell loved a cup of tea so much that in 1946 he published a guide to making it called “A Nice Cup Of Tea”.
gVa9 TIL that Pope John XII either died during sex with a married woman or was beaten to death by her husband, among many other scandalous acts he performed (affairs, toasting to the devil, ordaining a ten-year-old boys as a bishop, etc., etc., etc.).
wAKM TIL German footballer Mesut Özil donated his €300,000 World Cup victory bonus to pay for surgery of 23 children in Brazil