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TIL The company “Internet Eyes” provides live stream CCTV footage from stores in England so its online users can report shop-lifting for cash reward.

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n5p9 TIL tooth enamel (5) is harder then steel (4-4.5) on the Moh’s scale of hardness
J0Pl TIL Ben Franklin never patented any of his designs and inventions. He believed “that as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously”
YpGyr TIL that if Jeff Bezos was an economy, he'd be the 56th wealthiest economy above Kuwait, and just below Hungary. Let that sink in.
8apwa TIL Archduke Franz Ferdinand's marriage was morganatic, and so his wife could only be honored as royalty during military inspections, which he did many of out of love for his wife. He and his wife were eventually assassinated while making a military inspection, which started WWW1 (and led to WW2).
j90n TIL In the town of Laguna, Brazil a pod of Bottlenose Dolphin cooperatively fish with fishermen. The dolphin herd mullet toward the shore and signal the fishermen to cast their nets. They do this everyday! Town records say that the dolphins and fishermen have been cooperating since 1847.