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TIL actress Stephanie Courtney who portrays Flo in Progressive Insurance Commercials said “the GEICO gecko puts out more sexual vibes than Flo does"

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QjQ9 TIL that when surrendering during the American Civil war Robert E Lee dressed in an immaculate custom made uniform while Ulysses S Grant was dressed in a mud splattered general issue uniform.
R5dr1 TiL: In the early days of airmail a pilot, named Dean Smith, was forced to land on a cow causing his plane to wreck. It scared him.
XgnE TIL of Great-Grandmaster Su Kong, a Shaolin monk with “Werewolf Syndrome” who was famous for battling Japanese pirates and fighting bears in the woods for practice.
yQbXM TIL an estimated 100,000 German Jewish military personnel served in the German Army during World War I, of whom 12,000 were killed in action, and that later on Nazis tried to suppress the Jewish contribution and even tried to blame them for Germany's defeat
nGGB TIL Pope Francis was, at one point, a nightclub bouncer.