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TIL there is a Merrica river… in Australia

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JrRV TIL actor Phil Hartman has the record for most times guest starring on The Simpsons, appearing in 52 episodes.
VBmVG TIL thay the first European appearance of Arabic numerals was in a document from the year 976 called "Codex Albendensis", so called because it was written in the Spanish town of Albelda de Iregua.
nWy1d TIL that John Armstrong Jr was the last surviving member of the Continental Congress and lived up until 1843, dying at age 84.
VMrdQ TIL that Francisco Macías Nguema, the first President of Equatorial Guinea, was paranoid of educated people, because he had failed the entrance exams to the colonial civil service three times - so he killed everyone who wore glasses, which he saw as a sure sign of superior educational accomplishment
LQYor TIL that after his wife Julia's death in 2024, Bill Reagan of the Reagan Outdoor Advertising commissioned over 300 billboards across the USA to commemorate her life