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TIL Ohio issues bright yellow “party plates” to drivers with DUI convictions.

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47oN TIL that there is a zebra in hawaii with “golden” stripes instead of black, due to a pigmentation abnormality called amelanism.
mxDxM TIL that Yuri Milner, Stephen Hawking, and Mark Zuckerberg founded a project to send swarms of tiny spacecraft, driven by solar sails powered by gigawatt lasers, to nearby stars.
8eRGP TIL Mercedes-Benz with the highest mileage ever known is a 1976 Mercedes W123 240D taxi owned in Greece by a taxi driver. It has covered a total of 2.85 million kilometres – roughly equivalent to driving to the Moon and back six times.
VMOo8 TIL that Steven Spielberg wrote a treatment for a Jaws Prequel focused on a Young Quint on the U.S.S Indianapolis, described as “Saving Private Ryan, with sharks”.
WklV9 TIL the 1908 endurance motorcycle race was dominated by Indian Motorcycle and upstart Harley-Davidson. Walter Davidson won the two-day, 175 mile trek to New York City which proved the then leader Indian Motorcycle had serious competition from the upstart H-D.