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TIL Mussolini’s son in law, Count Ciano, was purged from the cabinet in 1943 when he was implicated in a plot to replace his father. Despite being offered many other safer positions away from Italy as a concession to his familial ties, Ciano chose the ambassadorship to the Holy See.

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J5Nm TIL there is a 42 kilobyte “zip bomb” which will extract itself to 4.5 Petabytes
4XerN TIL that an 18-year-old girl called Rae Heim ran across America almost entirely barefoot. She only wore shoes on some hard terrain. She ran 3,437.5 miles in 8 months and raised more than $10,000 for charity. She started running barefoot at 16 after breaking a big toe, and kept it up after it healed.
rmjM TIL that the Georgian word Shemomedjamo means “to eat past the point of fullness because the food tastes so good”. It roughly translates to “I accidentally ate the whole thing".
BrVvK TIL that most Buddhists do not believe in God. Although they respect and look up to the Buddha, they do not believe he was a god but they worship him as a form of respect.
x95g TIL that in 1998, a charter pilot discovered a 2.6 mile long geoglyph carved into a remote Australian plateau. It depicts a man holding a throwing stick and is known as ‘the Marree Man.’ To this day its creators remain unknown.