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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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e0rvg TIL that Bolton Strid, an innocuous stream in England, had killed every person who's ever fallen in - because it's actually a giant underground sideways river.
O9n4 TIL there is an animal that looks like a gremlin with a “long, bony, witch-like middle finger” called an Aye Aye. These gentle, harmless animals are killed due to local superstition that aye-ayes are harbingers of death, and if an aye-aye points its middle finger at you, it’s a death sentence.
OYoa TIL the pokémon Mew was actually a prank, amongst the staff, programmed in by Shigeki Morimoto. Due to a glitch, players were able to encounter Mew.
jNorQ TIL that in the mass escape of POWs from the Stalag Luft III camp which inspired the film The Great Escape, only 3 prisoners made it to safety. The two Norwegians and a Dutch man made it to Sweden and England respectively. The remaining prisoners were swiftly recaptured.
6gwW TIL That 70’s Show takes place between the year 1976 and 1979, but Christmas happens 5 times in the series.