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TIL State Farm refused to insure Florida homeowners for 5 years due to the high risk and only came back as a subsidiary in 2011 to limit liability on the company as a whole.

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gMjL7 TIL Mavis Beacon is not a real person. She was played by Renée L'Espérance, who worked at Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills.
N7omb TIL that the first person of color to ever be vice president of the United States was Charles Curtis, VP to Herbert Hoover who was of American Indian tribal citizenship
Jerk TIL an NCAA football coach was fired after a co worker found porngraphic videos of children on his cell phone. He fought the charges vigorously after being charged with 2 felonies. He was finally reinstated after 18 months after it was revealed it was his kids taking a bath.
VMZ0k TIL that during the Siege of Syracuse (213-212 BC), Greek mathematician Archimedes refused to abandon the geometry equation he was working on during a battle. His last words before being killed by a Roman soldier were: “Don't disturb my circles!”
lDMr TIL a Dutch city known as Utrecht celebrated George Orwell’s 110 birthday by putting party hats on surveillance cameras.