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TIL the state of Ohio requires drivers convicted of a DUI to drive with unique bright yellow license plates

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VZM8 TIL Churchill’s ‘We will fight on the beaches’ speech was never recorded. The famous recording is him reciting it in his home 4 years after the war.
wQ5W TIL that if you have an itch on the right side of your body you can relieve it by looking in the mirror and scratching the in the same place on the left side of your body.
8e6DV TIL the longest marathon run lasted 54 years 8 months 6 days 5 hours 32 minutes 20.3 seconds: Shizo Kanakuri, a Japanese runner, entered the race in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. He left the course because of exhaustion, silently returned to Japan, became a teacher, only resume the race in 1967.
ADymo TIL John F Kennedy Jr's burial at sea is estimated to have cost about $400,000 to reposition a destroyer and fly two chaplains for a service off the coast of Massachusetts.
rnp1 TIL that dropping a bomb from a balloon is, to this day, a violation of the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, although there is no such prohibition for dropping a bomb from an aircraft