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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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nAm7 TIL When asked why he’d punched the man who’d hit him with a raw egg, UK politician John Prescott said that he was following Tony Blair’s orders to, “Connect with the electorate.”
oB6go TIL a meteor had fallen in the kingdom of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, and on it someone had written "The First Emperor will die and his land will be divided." When he heard this, he sent someone to investigate who did it, and when no one admitted, all the people living nearby the meteor were killed.
gxNb TIL that after Bob Dylan offered The Beatles marijuana when he first met them in 1964 he was shocked to find out they weren’t regular smokers. Dylan had misheard the lyric ‘I can’t hide’ from 'I Want To Hold Your Hand’ as 'I get high’.
gM0E9 TIL That US Emergency MRE's underwent a color change in 2001, due to some instances where people would mistaken them as (similar looking) cluster bombs on the ground.
vZKj TIL there is a sea snail that wears a suit of iron plated armor. It is the only known animal to use iron sulfide as skeletal material.