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Billy Mays found dead at Florida home

June 28, 2009 By The Associated Press, The Associated Press

Billy Mays, the burly, bearded television pitchman whose boisterous hawking of products such as Orange Glo and OxiClean made him a pop-culture icon, has died. He was 50.

Tampa police said Mays' wife found him unresponsive Sunday morning. A fire rescue crew pronounced him deadat 7:45 a.m. It was not immediately clear how he died. He said he was hit on the head when an airplane he was onmade...

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