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TIL that “Mayhem” from the Allstate commercials is one of the most recognized advertising characters, but a study found that only 41% of respondents could actually link him to Allstate

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WM8X TIL Sebastian Bach was fired from Skid Row because he wanted to open for KISS and the band refused. After he was canned he left the band a voicemail saying that nobody is ever too big to open for KISS.
Dle TIL Richard Hammond left his Porsche 911 in traffic, and ran 16 miles for his daughter’s fourth birthday
vPLB TIL during WWII the US government hired a psychoanalyst to research Hitler’s background and he discovered that Hitler’s father may have been the illegitimate son of a Rothschild, one of the wealthiest Jewish families in the world
VBJgG TIL that in 2014 a teen actor portraying a zombie in a cornfield was accidently run over by a truck and killed but many of the patrons 'shooting' zombies from the truck thought it was just part of the ride