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TIL: In the USA, credit card companies are shifting credit card fraud liability to merchants if they don’t switch to chip card POS terminals by October 2015.

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1k9P TIL that Teddy Roosevelt volunteered for service in World War I ten years after having served as U.S. president.
vyBL TIL Finland plans to make access to 100 Mbit/s internet a legal right for all citizens by 2015
5VlDk TIL that during the first 4 days after the United Kingdom entered World War II, over 400,000 dogs and cats — some 26 percent of London’s pets — were voluntarily put to death by their owners without any Government direction, due to fears that they could not be properly cared for during the war.
KANE TIL A man in China has kept himself alive with a homemade dialysis machine for 13 years.
kn6g TIL that the painting ‘American Gothic’ is not a farmer and his wife but a farmer and his “spinster daughter,” meaning she is past the age of matrimonial eligibility.