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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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6EjyJ TIL Jimi Hendrix mainly played right-handed guitars that were turned upside down and restrung for left-hand playing.
byVQ TIL: Blood type is so important in Japan, you can be hired (or fired) for it, as well as buy blood-type-specific products like condoms that “are all the same, but contain different instructions for each blood group”
Oore TIL that 30 years ago, you could buy a pass for lifelong, unlimited first-class travel with American Airlines. Now they’re sueing some who did.
x4bB TIL that baked beans started with a bean native to the Americas exported to France/Italy in the 1500’s, were brought back to America with European colonization, then exported to the UK as an “American delicacy” in the late 1800’s, and are now reimported to the US as “UK Baked Beans”
wWBJ TIL one reason there are so many weird stories out of Florida is due to their transparency laws that allow the release crime details to the media immediately