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Til Insurance companies buy insurance for themselves called reinsurance, which covers them for when they have to payout on an insurance policy they have issued.

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0kmR TIL that John Adams (2nd US President) and Thomas Jefferson (3rd US President), both signers of the Declaration of Independence, died on the same day: Independence Day, July 4th, 1826.
wo8L7 TIL that Operation Valkyrie, a plot to kill Hitler, failed because the bag containing the bomb was moved at the last second by a Nazi Official, saving Hitler
OG5M6 TIL: The Book of Swindles was released in the 16th century and it can be used as a way to avoid scams or as a guidebook to commit them. It categorizes scams into 24 groups, such as Marriage, kidnapping, Women, government corruption, gambling, poetry scams, alchemy, sorcery, and illicit passion.
Ovwe TIL J.R.R. Tolkien started the Hobbit while grading examination papers. He found a blank page in one of the exams. Suddenly inspired, he wrote the words, “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit”.
Vjm TIL: There is a bar in Canada named after Zaphod Beeblebrox. And it serves Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters!