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W0j9 TIL over 80% of the world’s eyewear manufacturer and retailer brands are owned and operated by Luxottica Group, a main reason why glasses are so expensive.
QJEpL TIL serial killers act similarly to bees. Serial killers commit crime near their home, but far enough to prevent arousing suspicion. Similarly, bees collect pollen near their hive, but far enough from predators. Scientists found algorithms from studying bee behaviour to catch felons
LkbA0 TIL : The Ark Of The Covenant is claimed to be located in the church St. Mary of Zion in Aksum, Ethiopia. A guardian monk is appointed for life by his predecessor and then confined to the chapel of the Ark of the Covenant for the rest of his life, praying before it and offering incense.
mxBJv TIL that fishballs were invented when China's first emperor demanded fish with every meal. He threatened to execute the chef if he found bones in his food. The chef mashed the fish to remove bones quicker, ran out of time, panicked, so he squeezed the fish paste into balls and threw it in some soup.
69o7W TIL: Thomas Midgley, the inventor, played an important role in introducing two environmentally disastrous products - leaded gasoline & chloro flouro carbons. At 51 he contracted polio and 4 yrs later he was strangled to death by the device he devised to allow him to get out of bed unassisted