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TIL a single Dutch snack restaurant holds the registered name Wendy’s since 1988 in the Benelux (=Belgium/Netherlands/Luxembourg), blocking American fast-food chain Wendy’s to settle in Europe, even after Wendy’s (US) went to court to try to get the trademark registration dropped.

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R7b84 TIL a shark helped another shark give birth at an Auckland, New Zealand aquarium in 2009. The first shark bit the abdomen of the second, freeing the pups inside. One aquarium staff member said "It had to bite a certain part to let them out and do it without killing the babies or her."
KMrw TIL Brazil prisons offer their prisoners the chance to reduce their prison sentence by four days (up to 48 days/year) for every book they read and write a report on
KB9Q TIL that George Hotz, then 17 years old, was the first to unlock a first generation iPhone and sold the iPhone for a Nissan 350z and 3 locked iPhones.
yQ5KM TIL Ross Ulbricht, the creator and operator of the Silk Road, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
OoRme TIL The last individual of a species is called an "Endling" - when it dies, the species is extinct.