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TIL that all Medal of Honour recipients receive a special license plate (state dependant) to display on their vehicle.

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PYr0L TIL in France, private DNA paternity testing is illegal, punishable by up to a year in prison and a €15,000 fine.
69l4l TIL That most of Napoleon's soldiers who invaded Russia weren't French, with the rest mostly being a mixture of Poles, Germans and Italians.
JlQ1 TIL The Plantaris is a small muscle in your calf that is believed to be used by our ancestors to grip with their feet. It is so weak that it is considered functionally obsolete and arguments have been made that humans are evolving it out. It is absent in 7-10% of the population worldwide.
0wM5y TIL that tennis balls are green/yellow because they were the easiest for viewers at home to see on their colour TVs. Before that, they were white
KNxB TIL the only employee of Goldman Sachs to go to jail in the aftermath of the financial crisis was an employee that Goldman Sachs specifically told authorities to arrest for stealing computer code the employee helped write. He was arrested 48 hours after they informed authorities without a warrant.