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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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awOao TIL Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC were established by the same financier, Lou Pearlman, who, among numerous other schemes, infamously classified himself as the “sixth member of the band” to siphon profits away from the artists.
LQgo0 TIL: Ireland moved a whole motorway for a fairy bush.
yQNEX TIL that the US military developed a set of playing cards with the names and faces of the most wanted members of Saddam Hussein's government on them so the troops would learn to recognize them while playing cards
Lk0bZ TIL that Tatiana and Krista Hogan are conjoined twins of the brain and can see through eachothers eyes and read eachothers minds.
mxYZR For his Lux Noctis series, Reuben Wu programmed a light-bearing drone (a 3DR Solo UAV carrying a Fiilex AL250 light) to follow specific paths around his subjects as he photographed them using long exposures. The results are a set of UFO-friendly vistas that feature monumental scenery illuminated in totally unnatural ways – like this shot of a rocky crest lit from above by a sci-fi halo.