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TIL a driver license in Arizona expires on your 65th birthday and until then, drivers only need new photos every 12 years.

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Zw5v TIL In Illinois, the legal definition of “candy” is specifically tied into the absence of flour. Whoppers contain flour and are taxed 5% less as a regular food item
rRd0e TIL that Queen Victoria is credited with spreading the tradition of brides wearing white dresses to their weddings. After her wedding to Albert in 1840, the colour white became a status symbol of wealth and power, and others quickly followed her example.
RK11 TIL Canadian Thanksgiving was the original Thanksgiving. The first one was celebrated by Martin Frobisher in 1578, who wanted to praise god that he survived his expedition to search for the Northwest Passage.
X0E8E TIL Dan Frost, a German scientist, was able to make diamonds from peanut butter.
p8KR8 TIL serial killer Carroll Cole, responsible for the deaths of at least 15 women, killed his first victim at just 8 years of age, drowning a classmate in a lake. The death was thought to have been an accident until he confessed in an autobiography he wrote in prison.