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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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nWDMB TIL Mt Washington in New Hampshire has one of the lowest wind chill temp ever recorded at -108.4F in 2023. It also has one of the highest wind gusts ever recorded at 253 F in 1934.
OG5R4 TIL there is a philosophical idea called solipsism which says that only one's mind is sure to exist; everything from the external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist
JY741 TIL that Martin Luther King’s mother was also assassinated. A deranged man who believed Christianity was harming African Americans gunned her down as she played the organ in church. He was sentenced to death but this was commuted to life imprisonment because the Kings opposed capital punishment.
78LXL TIL around 1920, a man found 3 saplings growing in a row & grafted the central tree onto the 2 adjacent ones in a diagonal fashion to form the shape of the letter "N" in order to impress his girlfriend, Nellie. It was apparently successful as the couple later married. It's known as Nellie's Tree.
woLxE TIL that during the Falklands War, the British Royal Navy killed 3 whales with torpedoes and depth charges after mistaking them for Argentinian submarines