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TIL Ohio Issues Bright Yellow Licence Plates to Shame DUI Offenders

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9GLG TIL Richard Feynman’s dying last words were “I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.”
woboY TIL that zircon crystals help scientists date the Earth because their uranium atoms slowly turn into lead over billions of years. The oldest zircons, found in Australia, are over 4 billion years old.
wLEk8 TIL in 2004 215 restaurants in the Chinese province of Guizhou were closed after being charged with lacing their food with opium to make customers addicted. In 2016, 35 restaurants in the entire country were found doing the same thing.
NXwQJ TIL that in an ‘unfortunate evolutionary coincidence’ the δ-hexatoxins in Sydney Funnel-web spider venom are exceptionally dangerous to humans. A bite can kill a human in as little as 15 minutes.
4Xyob TIL in 1970 Nike offered Spencer Haywood either $100,000 or 10 percent of the company in exchange for promoting the company’s shoes. He chose the 100k over the stock that would be worth $8.6 billion today