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TIL that only a small percentage of people challenge their insurer's denial of claim, but those that do are successful up to half the time.

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grD0X TIL In 1845, Carlo Matteucci who was a physicist and neurophysiologist invented the "Frog battery" using the injury potential created by frog's muscles.
BRwW TIL that the nursery rhyme “Mary Mary Quite Contrary” is about Mary Tudor, and that the “silver bells and cockle shells” are allusions to instruments of torture.
R7Va9 TIL Jon Stewart was a talented college soccer player who scored the only goal in a key game leading to the NCAA tournament.
ANkml TIL Richard M. Daley authorized the midnight bulldozing of Meigs Field, a small, downtown, lakefront airport in Chicago. This stranded 16 planes on the ground including several Fire Department helicopters. The FAA fined the city $33,000 for not giving 30 days notice ahead of an airport closure.
XeN8 TIL that when Sean Connery was held at gunpoint while filming by his female co-star’s gangster boyfriend, he immediately grabbed the gun and chased the guy out of the building. He then walked back on-set and asked the director, “Should I cut yet?”