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TIL Ohio once misprinted their new license plates showing the Wright Flyer flying backwards. They had to recycle 35000 license plates which were misprinted.

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N7kRQ TIL British band The KLF once burned their last £1 million in the name of performance art before leaving the music industry for good.
6Jem TIL that when asked by Vanity Fair about how she got role of Princess Leia in original Star Wars trilogy, Carrie Fisher’s answer was: “I slept with some nerd. I hope it was George. I took too many drugs to remember.”
97Mp TIL that a U.S. court once debated whether the X-Men are human or not, because “dolls”- which represent human beings - are tariffed at twice the rate of “toys” - which represent something other than human (monsters, robots, etc.). The court decided that X-men are not human.
p8QpO TIL a Kansas woman drove her car 1,000,000 miles in just 5 years.
epxp5 TIL about the Kanopy app. All you need is a library card and you can stream movies and TV shows for free. You get a certain amount of credits per month based on your home library and the kids section is unlimited.