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TIL New Hamphire prison inmates that have to make license plates, stamp their state motto “Live Free or Die” …hour after hour, day after day,

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4jeg TIL Ben Franklin had a business turning old rag newspapers into pulp & paper. He later got the contract to print US currency & begat the term “rags to riches”
b6n54 TIL in a soccer penalty kick shootout, the team kicking FIRST wins 60% of the time.
8ea6Z TIL United States Postal Service vehicles don’t have license plates
8MyK TIL Caligula was not his real name. Germanicus’ troops called him “Caligula” as a boy, meaning “Little Boots” or “Booties.” The nickname stuck and he hated it.
wENE TIL In Victorian times bottles were used to collect tears with a special stopper that allowed the tears to evaporate. When the tears were gone the mourning period was over.