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TIL Deaf / Blind UK residents cannot serve on jury duty because a translator counts as a "13th person in the room"

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e0A0E TIL that the English chess term "checkmate" is derived from the Persian phrase "shah mat", which means "the king is dead".
krW4 TIL there’s a school in Russia for mastering “The Art of oral sex”
epPyn TIL that a Japanese laboratory designed a robot to win rock paper scissors with a 100% success rate
e0Ykn TIL in the “The Wizard Of Oz” movie, the Tin Man cried chocolate syrup instead of actual machine oil as the oil didn’t show up well on film
6E7vY TIL that Cyril Radcliffe was given just five weeks to decide on a border between India and Pakistan. Before his appointment, he had never visited India and knew no one there.