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TIL insurance companies spent $8B+ on advertising in 2022

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78Mex TIL If Lon Chaney had not died suddenly, he would have played the lead role in Tod Browning's Dracula (1931) instead of Bela Lugosi.
WkQeY TIL Ejection seat manufacturer Martin-Baker run the Ejection Tie Club, that is confined solely to those who have emergency ejected from an aircraft using a Martin-Baker ejection seat, which has thereby saved their life.
YEkd TIL that because bullets move faster than sound, a shot to the head could kill you before you even hear the gun fire
VB6lG TIL Albert Einstein holds a patent for a refrigerator. He created the device after learning a faulty fridge seal killed a family in Berlin. It was rendered obsolete a few years later by the invention of Freon.
MGom TIL that some of the worst charities donate less than 4% of their donations to the actual cause they’re promoting. One cancer charity even paid $18m to a company to solicit funds, the company being owned the charity president’s son.