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TIL Chinese insurance companies now offer insurance to protect individuals from being sued by elderly people they tried to help

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45Q5 TIL in the UK if you dial 999 but can’t audibly signal the operator you can press ‘55’ to signal that you are in danger
Jrg1 TIL A Chinese mathematical genius who had won a gold medal in the International Maths Olympiad denied a full Scholarship to MIT, and chose to become a monk in a Buddhist Monastery
b6Zop TIL that the term "soccer" originated in England as slang representing the "soc" in "association football"
7rRaP TIL: the United States Postal Service photographs every piece of mail it processes. In 2O13, it took more than 16O Billion photographs.
l77mK TIL 'The Epic of Sundiata' is a historical poem that has been performed for over 780 years across West Africa. Studied in schools of many nations in the region today, it tells how Sundiata Keita founded the Mali Empire (1235-1670). Over centuries it has been translated in Arabic, French and English.