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TIL Italy is the country with the highest variety of cheeses in the world, with over 2,500 traditional varieties

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XnJj TIL the CIA’s concern over soccer fields along the coast of Cuba led to the Cuban Missile Crisis. In September 1962, a CIA analyst noticed the fields and became concerned because, as he put it, “Cubans play baseball, Russians play soccer.”
xXpD TIL ‘Google’ is spelled the way it is because Larry Page and Sergey Brin accidentally misspelled 'googol’ when registering the trademark and domain name
WkbWB TIL Condom was first used in 3000 BC by Pasiphae, wife of King Minos, because he was said to have “serpents and scorpions” in his semen and his mistresses died after having intercourse with him
4Pjg TIL: That Colonel Sanders got fired from dozens of jobs. Including being a lawyer. He found himself broke at the age of 65, and decided to start KFC.
6bl TIL in Memphis, Tennessee it is illegal for women to drive a car unless there is a man with a red flag in front of the car warning the other people on the road.