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TIL Ohio DUI offenders must use yellow license plates
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TIL Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes novels, was a first-class cricketer. He played 10 games for the MCC between 1900 and 1907, achieving a high score of 43 and taking one wicket. Also, the address 221B Baker street, is just down the road from Cricket's heaven, The Lord's.
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TIL: The largest private home in America was built in 1895 by the Vanderbilts and would cost $250M to build today.
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TIL that there is an Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS)
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TIL about Walter White -- no, not the Breaking Bad Walter White -- but Walter Francis White, a Black American NAACP activist who infiltrated hate groups because he was light skinned and investigated lynchings. He was instrumental in setting up the NAACP fund which fought segregation.
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TIL In 1993, 16-year-old Keron Thomas posed as a train conductor and drove an A train for three hours and safely delivered passengers to their destinations before he accidentally triggered an emergency brake on a fast curve.