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TIL that the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme is actually from an obscure Italian kids movie.

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b6BwE TIL that in the State of Georgia there is a 150-foot-deep canyon that formed due to poor farming practices in the 19th century.
KOjZw TIL in Canada, the manufacture and sale of margarine was forbidden by an Act of Parliament in 1886. A lengthy conflict persisted between farmers and consumers, so that margarine did not become permanently legal until 1948, when Parliament referred the issue to the Supreme Court
E1VO7 TIL that black rhinos are very close to extinction due to habitat loss and illegal poaching. Today, only about 5,500 black rhinos are alive in the wild.
ZQlR TIL that Mikhail Gorbachev, former premier of the Soviet Union, starred in a Pizza Hut commercial
0w6lA TIL, despite posing as a neutral country, Switzerland helped US and German intelligence services in gathering classified communications by selling rigged encoding devices to more than 120 governments.