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TIL that the world's largest Jack-in-the-Box has a 600 pound clown head once owned by Captain Kangaroo

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p8GRZ This photograph was taken with a simple 35 mm point-and-shoot camera in 1989 by the STS-29 crew aboard the space shuttle Discovery.
ZN8p TIL an Ohio woman once got out of a parking ticket because of a missing comma in the state’s laws. She successfully argued that her car wasn’t a “motor vehicle camper” and therefore wasn’t included in the list of prohibited vehicles.
y4Rw TIL the British Standards Institute has issued standards for the ethical design of robots, declaring that robots should not be designed solely or primarily to kill or harm humans and warning against robots that lack respect for cultural diversity or pluralism.
j65Kv TIL when Olympe de Gouges argued that Louis XVI should not be executed a mob showed up at her house. When she went out to meet them someone grabbed her by her hair and started a mock auction for her head. She offered a "massive bid" which humored the crowd, and they let her go.
bjMN TIL That Popcorn when air popped is actually healthy. A single cup contains more anti oxidants than most of the vegetables people eat in a day as well as vitamins B, A, E, and K and iron, potassium and zinc.