TIL that billionaire Dan Gilbert has invested $7.5 billion into Detroit, Michigan over a span of 15 years & donated $15 million to eliminate property tax debt for 20,000 homes in the city. His real estate company Bedrock owns, built, or has renovated 140 buildings in the city for adaptive reuse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Gilbert
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1s802lt/til_that_billionaire_dan_gilbert_has_invested_75/
Dear celebrities (especially actors and people who speak on-camera for a living): please allow yourselves to age with grace.
Stop puffing up your lips, freezing/botoxing your foreheads and the space between lip and nose, and filling your cheeks with…whatever that stuff is.
You look like Madame Tussaud’s likenesses, not yourselves, and it’s extremely unsettling.
Signed, a fan.
End of an heir-a: The U.K. abolishes aristocrats' right to inherit Parliament seats
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/21/nx-s1-5137843/uk-parliament-abolishes-hereditary-lords?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into World News @world-news-npr
"Excuse me, your highness" the frog said. "May I implore you to give me a peck on the cheek?"
"Not a kiss?" the princess asked.
"I would not presume. A peck will turn me back into a prince for a day, so I can find a bow and arrows."
"Whatever for?"
"I'll kill the heron who's eating my friends!"
Today I learned
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