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TIL Australia’s Channel 9 put watermarks across the middle of their video footage to prevent Channel 7 from using their material. It didn’t work.

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DlVJ TIL In 1953 US and UK overthrow first Iranian democratic government because Iran wanted to nationalize the petroleum reserves.
ebJn TIL that 54 years after Antoine de St Exupery’s disappearance at sea a fisherman found his bracelet in his fishing nets.
mxaMM TIL that bloodhound´s sense of smell is so accurate, it can be used as evidence in court. Apparently they can follow tracks over 130miles. That’s just crazy
6WPX TIL $41 billion worth of gift cards have likely gone unredeemed from 2005 to 2011.
OWOg TIL that a portuguese soldier who ran out of bullets during the siege of Diu extracted his own teeth and armed his weapon with it, firing against the enemy that was considering he was out of ammunition.