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TIL Ohio & Minnesota have special license plates for DUI offenders

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K0NG TIL there is a fully legitimate German beer named Fucking Hell. It’s named after the Austrian village ‘Fucking’, and the german word 'hell’, a term used for light ale. Because of this, the name was granted.
0wRdA TIL Cher hated the song “If I Could Turn Back Time” and only recorded it because songwriter Diane Warren held down her leg and said “You have to record it!” It was released as a single and marked a comeback moment for Cher in 1989.
LkY99 TIL that the metal from sunken WW2 ships is of great demand in the scientific and medical fields as they have no background radiation caused by nuclear testing which can interfere with test results.
rjAx TIL of Paraprosdokian, a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that forces the reader or listener to reinterpret the first part. An example being, “On the other hand, you have different fingers”
xVW4w TIL legend has it that Franciscan padres who founded California’s missions brought mustard seeds from Spain and scattered them along the road that connects their missions. Since mustard is an invasive species, it created a trail of bright yellow flowers that the padres used to mark the road.