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TIL billboards are banned in four states: Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, and Vermont.

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E9kW TIL After sleeping with 20,000 women during his carer Wilt Chamberlain said before his death “all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I have learned in my life I’ve found out that having one woman a thousand different times is much more satisfying.”
W9bX TIL that in 1899 the head of the U.S. Patent Office asked President McKinley to abolish it because “Everything that can be invented, has been invented.”
dgp8 TIL James Sligo Jameson, heir to Irish whiskey manufacturer Jameson’s, bought an 11-year-old girl and offered her to cannibals to document and sketch how she was cooked and eaten.
M7x10 TIL: Norteño Mexican music is highly influenced by polka music
LyYZ TIL the famous painting of the people in the park has a twin painting that depicts working class people on the other side.