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TIL that in 2011 Geico spent just under one billion dollars on advertising

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kOXpe TIL that Carlos Kaiser was a professional soccer player signed for many clubs without having played a single professional game. He "wanted to be a footballer, but did not want to play football",would sign short contracts based on recommendations of his football friends and fake injuries!
gxv7 TIL there is a 50,000 word novel that was written without using a single word containing the letter “e”
nbGP Today I learned that the spikes at the end of Stegosaurus’s tail are called “thagomizers” because of a Far Side comic, published in 1982, that featured a cave man pointing to a diagram of a Stegosaurus tail with the caption “Now this end is called the Thagomizer–after the late Thag Simmons.”
xVQ40 TIL: In the last 100 years, more people have been killed by a dog in each single year than the total killed by sharks for all 100 years combined.
0ZX1 TIL execution by mortar shell is a thing in North Korea