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TIL drivers in Ohio receive a yellow “scarlet letter” license plate if they have been convicted of a DUI.

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b6ry7 TIL you have to pay to have your star on the walk of fame in Hollywood, $30,000 to be precise.
R7Vx1 TIL - When area codes were first introduced, they were set up so the highest populated areas would be the easiest to dial on a rotary phone. New York was 212, Los Angeles 213, Chicago 312, and Detroit 313.
9Y8YB TIL after Winston Churchill was knocked down by a car New York in 1931, his doctor issued a medical note that Churchill’s convalescence “necessitates the use of alcoholic spirits especially at mealtimes,” specifying 250 cc (8 oz) per day as the minimum
NrG6 TIL in 2006 a group of climbers reached the top of Britain’s highest mountain and found a piano
A7wx TIL after hearing Kennedy’s “end of the decade” speech, an Englishman made a wager with a bookmaker of 10 pounds at 1000/1 “that a man will set foot on the surface of the moon before the first of January 1970.” He thought it was “a common sense bet.”