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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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Me7Q0 TIL the American Soccer League made soccer fairly popular in the U.S. in the 1920's. However, FIFA and the United States Football Association forced the ASL to fold in 1933, creating the image of soccer being a foreign and unwelcoming sport to americans.
W7X9B TIL: The Pig War of 1859 was a confrontation between the United States and Great Britain that started when an American settler killed a pig. The conflict grew to involve warships and hundred of troops on both sides.
nDYo TIL a woman found her wedding ring on a carrot growing in her backyard, 16 years after misplacing it.
MLJm TIL that, when the bible references a person putting their hand under someone else’s thigh when making an oath, they were actually cupping–and swearing on–their testicles. Evidently this custom is what led to the term “testify”, being derived from “testicles”.
96WM TIL Coca-Cola is worth more than Pepsi, Starbucks, Budweiser, and Red Bull combined.