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TIL Maryland's state song is just a rip off of "Oh Christmas Tree"

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WkmVY TIL that Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) don't contain the letters I, O, or Q; this is to avoid confusion with the numerals 1, 0, and 9 (q).
m115E TIL the Indy 500 isn't held in Indianapolis but rather in the town of Speedway, an enclave of Indianapolis laid out in 1912 by the owners of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
BrKWd TIL Manuel Noriega, former Panamanian leader, may have been the first person ever to get Rick Rolled, when the US govt blasted music at him during his removal from power in 1989. He had holed up in a foreign embassy in Panama.
lodDV TIL about Junius Groves, a former slave who walked 500 miles from Kentucky to Kansas City, Kansas and became very wealthy after finding great success growing potatoes.
EOD0 TIL that Stand on Zanzibar, a book written in 1969 and set in the year 2010, predicted that world will have by 2010 a popular world leader named President Obomi, and that school shootings would be prevalent, among other near-accurate predictions.