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TIL that the oldest still-operating webcam in the world is The FogCam! At San Fransisco State University It launched in July, 1994

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Yaax TIL that two amazon booksellers using automatic algorithms to set their prices once each accidentally based their pricing on the other. The automatic programs created an upward spiral of competing prices that eventually topped $3 million for a textbook.
VkJZ TIL Brazil has more Lebanese people than Lebanon.
a868N TIL the only in-flight structural breakup of an airliner to ever be caused by air turbulence alone was a case of a plane flying directly through a tornado
9w00G TIL that the number of US federal government employees has hovered between approx. 2.7Mil and 3Mil since 1967. Lowering the per capita ratio from 1.5 employees per 100 people to 0.9 employees per 100 people.
pY008 TIL the Michelin Man is named Bibendum, or Bib for short. He even has a category for value-for-money restaurants in MICHELIN's guidebooks—the Bib Gourmand—named after him.