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TIL There is a bank in Italy that accepts Parmigiano cheese as collateral for small business loans.

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pJDA TIL that a 1997 poll found that Americans thought NASA represented approximately 20% of the federal budget. In reality, NASA represented 0.9% of the federal budget. The record high level for NASA funding was 4.4%.
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awNky TIL that the first jazz performance of "Someday My Prince Will Come" was by the Ghetto Swingers at the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1943. To avoid causing controversy, the band had to change the program name from "Music by Frank Churchill" to "Music from Disney's Snow White"