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TIL: Nearly 7% of American newspaper employees now work at the NYTimes

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oBvbW TIL as a child Jimi Hendrix, being left-handed, would secretly restring his guitars to fit his left hand, but when his superstitious father was around (who believed it was bad luck to play with your left hand), he taught himself to play the normal guitar upside down.
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