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TIL duck boat tours use replica or surplus military DUKW vehicles used for amphibious landings in WW2

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N7kGb TIL pornography involving characters with the appearance of minors is proctected by the First Amendment, as long as the actors themselves are of legal age.
7Qlx TIL a trans woman wasn’t allowed to change her gender marker to female at the DMV, so she went outside and took off her shirt. She was arrested, despite her license saying “Male”
j6kjR TIL Ulysses S. Grant was the first U.S. president to get a speeding ticket in 1872 for driving his horse-drawn carriage too fast.
xVbyD TIL of coin clipping, the act of shaving off a small portion of a precious metal coin for melting the clippings into bullion or to make new coins. Coin clipping is why many coins have the rim marked with stripes or other engravings, a counterfeiting practice devised by Issac Newton.
8aJXX TIL that "Corolla" means "little crown" in Latin, and "innermost ring of flower petals" in English