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TIL that insurance companies are themselves insured against big payouts from unforseeable disasters, and that this is called ‘reinsurance’.

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rRnlo TIL that when Def Leppard recorded Pour Some Sugar On Me their drummer Rick Allen only had one arm. He had lost it in a car crash in 1984. The song was released on their Hysteria-album in 1987.
KYZQJ TIL that Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Harry Potter) is located on Scotland, not on England!!
Z8v1R TIL that the shamisen, a Japanese stringed instrument, was traditionally made of dog or cat skin
xV7Jb TIL when deaf people with schizophrenia 'hear voices', they hallucinate hands communicating using sign language
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