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TIL of the Chinese social credit system, which will be used to exclude citizens from flights, schools, loans etc. Based on their "score" received from monitoring of everyday activity

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wo6wo TIL Professionals in psychology and related fields have long looked upon sarcasm negatively, particularly noting that sarcasm tends to be a 'Maladaptive coping mechanism' for those with 'unresolved anger' or 'frustration'. One psychologist has even described it as 'hostility disguised as humour'
woOxE TIL about Jimi Heselden, who purchased Segway in 2009. 9 months later he fell into a river while riding a Segway and died.
Z1xB TIL in Nordic mythology, Ratatoskr was a squirrel whose sole job was to carry insulting messages between a great eagle and a dragon at opposite ends of Yggdrasil, the great World Tree
w1lE TIL “when Socrates was asked to propose his own punishment, he suggested a wage paid by the government and free dinners for the rest of his life.”
4kJNw TIL that the heavily outnumbered British won the pivotal Battle of Plassey that started their conquest of India because they knew how to deal with rain. They covered their gunpowder while the Siraj's gunpowder got wet and unusable.