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TIL that in 2007, Ohio proposed issuing specially marked license plates to sex offenders, similar to those already used for DUI offenders.

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6EGWm TIL The giant silverware company Oneida Limited started out as a 19th century free love comune. Both older men and women were chosen to be sexual mentors to adolescent members of the opposite sex. And they also made silverware.
5VOER TIL that in 1996, Southampton College awarded Kermit the Frog an honorary "doctorate of Amphibious Letters" in recognition for his contribution to children's education.
wLP5W TIL a cow in Poland escaped on its way to the slaughterhouse, broke through a metal fence, swam to a nearby island, and was allowed to live there after its owner gave up trying to recapture it.
6EgJ TIL Soundgarden did a 1 minute cover of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s duet “2 Minute’s Silence,” claiming to have cut Yoko’s minute from the track.
pY4rb TIL about Alvin Greene, a man who won the South Carolina Democratic Primary for U.S. Senate in 2010 despite having no cell phone, no computer, no lawn signs, no consultants, being unemployed, and living with his dad