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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

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MDAm TIL that even though it hasn’t existed for over 20 years, the Soviet Union is still in second place for all-time olympic medal wins.
oRweK TIL that people in the Medieval era shared their bed with the entire family and even the occasional overnight visitor - only the very rich could afford more than one bed and poor people just slept on piles of cloth/hay on the floor.
VDpp TIL of Emmett Till, a black teenager who was murdered after allegedly whistling at a white woman. He was so badly disfigured that the only way he could be identified was through his ring. Years later, the woman in question admitted that she fabricated parts of her story.
xVgxD TIL Jackie Robinson had a brother named Mack who ran with Jessie Owens
1vY7 TIL the Buddha’s story appears in Christianity as the legend of St. Josaphat and in Islam as the legend of Budasaf.