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TIL Most of Sony’s total global revenue comes from selling life insurance in Japan

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OoeLg TIL Dorian Leigh, one of the first supermodels, was a mechanical engineer who designed airplane wings during WWII
QN0Ek TIL during the first days of a baby deer (fawn)'s life, they lie still and are mostly alone apart from brief visits by their mother. Yet this early time in a deer's life is when they are the safest from predators.
8adW4 TIL that Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's production company is named Seven Bucks because that is the amount of money he had to his name when he was cut from the Canadian Football League
64Xm TIL that due to the fact that only 1 out of 50 subscribers to porn sites are women, some billing companies will automatically flag an account as fraud if a female name was used to register
8eyl8 TIL Split-Brain Experiments by Sperry and Gazzaniga showed in patients with severed corpus callosums (to treat severe epilepsy), the two hemispheres were unable to communicate. The experiment showed consciousness can “split” into two separate streams within the same person.