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TIL Olympians live 5 years longer on average than the general population

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oBpDY TIL that Maldivian is written using a unique alphabet which uses Arabic numerals as its first nine consonants, and Indic numerals for the following nine. The script may have been invented as a secret code before being adopted for more general use.
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