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A Horse in the Toilet?!, Creepy Clowns, Superpowered Bug Pee

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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The Effects of Clown Therapy on the Perception of Cockroaches

Research that does exist has focused almost exclusively on the perceptions of clowns in hospital settings with virtually no consideration of the prevalence of colrophobia in community samples. So these scientists decided to actually examine the fear of Clowns in an international population with the appropriately named fear of clowns questionnaire. On a scale of like one to seven, how likely are you to not be able to get a clown encounter out of your mind can either of you give us? I think it's highly dependent on the clown.

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