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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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x69xk TIL that despite over 30 witnesses to the 1955 murder of Lamar Smith, veteran and Civil Rights activist, in broad daylight outside the courthouse of Brookhaven, Mississippi, no witness - who included the local sheriff - would testify in the case, and so the crime went unpunished
4kADg TIL explorer Captain James Cook was fatally stabbed by a chieftain with a British-made dagger. Cook and his crew had earlier traded the dagger to the local Hawaiians.
9YP5p TIL that during the Winter War of 1939-1940, Russian tanks and infantry attempted to flank Vyborg by crossing the frozen Gulf of Finland. When Finnish forces were alerted, they fired 12” coastal batteries into the ice. Entire Russian companies disappeared.
wLPk8 TIL Mara Wilson was very sad because her mother died of cancer and couldn't see Matilda's movie. After that, Danny DeVito had told Mara that he brought an early version of the film to the hospital where her mother was while she was badly sick, so her mother saw her performance before she died.
Qok6 TIL In 1916 an Arctic cold front slammed through Browning, Montana, dropping the temperature from 44°F to -56°F in 24 hours. The most dramatic 24-hour drop in temperature ever recorded in the US.