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TIL that for years, the slogan on Oklahoma license plates was “Oklahoma is OK.”

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O51a TIL at age 47 Al Capone regressed to the mental capacity of a 12 year-old-child due to brain damage caused by the neurosyphilis and spent the last years of his life in his Florida mansion raving about Communists, foreigners, and Bugs Moran, who he was convinced was plotting to kill him.
oRkW TIL Jack Daniel’s last words were “One last drink, Please”
M7y7K TIL of the phrase "I say it's spinach", an idiom meaning "it's nonsense/rubbish" originating from a 1928 New Yorker cartoon captioned "I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it"
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