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TIL the state of Ohio gives out different colored license plates for those convicted of DUI

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D0QJ TIL that the 17-minute long psychedelic rock song In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, by Iron Butterfly, was originally named In the Garden Of Eden. The lead singer was so high, drunk, or both that he slurred the words, creating the title.
xPp7 TIL 63% of the largest Native American reservation’s population don’t have telephones.
Zvg4 TIL Steve Wozniak accidentally discovered the first way of displaying color on computer screens, and still to this day does not understand how it works.
VwD4 TIL, when FDR was president he once decided to test whether people he greeted actually listened to him. As he received each person he said “I murdered my grandmother this morning.” Most people responded with"How kind of you" until one person said “I’m sure she had it coming to her”
b6Dmj TIL that Margaret Thatcher was opposed to the fall of the Berlin Wall and actively tried to stop it