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TIL there are 4 states that ban billboards - Hawaii, Alaska, Vermont and Maine.

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XEYg6 TIL in 2016 and 2017 American and Canadian diplomats stationed in Cuba began reporting unusual, unexplained health problems later described in a medical study as "a new syndrome in the diplomats that resembles persistent concussion." The cause of "Havana Syndrome" is still unknown.
JYl6j TIL about “The Mother’s Kiss”, a procedure in which one nostril is closed while a caregiver blows into a child’s mouth, removing a foreign object from the open nostril.
74Pr TIL that under US law, companies can refuse to take cash when they charge you before providing the product, but after you get it there’s a debt, and they have to let you pay cash
8a8da TIL Jimmy Carter has been nominated for 9 Grammys and won 2.
VBLr0 TIL before World War II, not many married Western men wore wedding rings. During the war though, married men who were serving in the military started to wear them to remind themselves of their wives and families back home, and it became much more common.