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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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p8M9p TIL that the Chicagoland Tylenol murders still remain unsolved and no one was ever charged. In 1982, 7 people were murdered via cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules; leading to industry-wide tamper-proof seals and phasing out of capsules.
R7ej4 TIL When you were born, you had 300 bones. Now you have 206. The human skeleton begins to develop 13 to 16 weeks after conception. At birth, a human has about 300 bones and cartilage elements, and many bones that will eventually fuse together are still separate, although joined by tough membranes.
Z8n5R TIL that Charles Guiteau, who assassinated President Garfield, probably suffered from neurosyphillis, perhaps caught from a prostitute. He spent several years at a free love commune but could not get any of the women there to sleep with him, even earning the nickname "Charles Git-out"
XEnMD TIL the screaming guy in the song "big enough" is Jimmy Barnes, Australian rockstar and former lead singer of the Australian rock band "Cold Chissel"
KYr9J TIL Emperor Nero added events such as poetry, singing, acting and playing the lyre into the Olympics in 67 AD and declared himself the winner in all of them. He also 'claimed' victory in four-horse chariot race despite entering with ten horses and getting injured when he was thrown from his chariot.