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TIL in Dubai, license plates are bought and sold for upwards of $14 million in order to show status, with 1 being the most desired, then 2, then so on.

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e08Jg TIL the "Woman Yelling at Cat" meme lady was yelling at her friends for publicly exposing the fact that her husband was abusing her. He later committed suicide.
p860O TIL that Virginia has spent 100 years asking Minnesota for the return of a Confederate Flag captured at the Battle of Gettysburg...and Minnesota keeps saying no.
9wVor TIL about British labour camps, Voluntary establishments whose aim was to help young men from the distressed areas of the country where unemployment was particularly high.
BgBjD TIL John Hinckley Jr., Reagan's attempted assassin, came from a wealthy conservative Dallas family who were major Bush donors; he was raised in the affluent Park Cities neighborhood that "gave Reagan the highest majority" of the vote; and he belonged to the American Nazi Party
X0MXj TIL the final surrender of the confederates in the American Civil War was in Liverpool (England) when the CSS Shenandoah surrendered 6 months after Palmito Ranch (the last battle in May 1865)