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TIL the shoe company Vans made clown shoes first as a marketing gimmick, then for real clowns, although the number of shoes produced remains a mystery.

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x6715 TIL Phobos, one of Mars's moons, orbits a mere several thousand kilometers away from Mars's surface. That's so close, you couldn't fit Earth in between Mars and Phobos!
jNMyv TIL that a girl who was abducted at 3 saw her own face on a milk carton. It is one of very few success stories of the missing children milk carton campaign.
y1wp TIL of the Holodomor, mass-deaths resulting from man-made famine in Ukraine during 1932. The highest estimates of death tolls rival the Holocaust with anywhere from 3 to 12 million killed.
nWmJB TIL that there is a species of frog called the "purple frog" that spends most of its life underground and only emerges for a few days each year to breed during the monsoon season.
gr9w8 TIL pee can be mixed with lunar dust to make sturdy space cement that could hold 10 times its own weight