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TIL that the Barilla's pasta manufacturing plant in Parma (Italy) is the world's largest pasta production facility. It is 430,000 square foot/40,000 square meters large and produces 320,000 tons of pasta annually

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KYlea TIL the US constitution protects both ritual animal sacrifice and sports coaches holding public prayer with players before a sports game. Theoretically, a coach could sacrifice a goat to Satan before every little league game, and the state could not lawfully intervene or stop them.
Ma8b TIL of the Man versus Horse Marathon, which originated from a pub bet in 1980. It was being disputed that over the right terrain and over enough distance, a man could outrun a horse. In 2004, that bet was settled when Huw Lobb beat the fastest horse by two minutes.
Egx60 TIL since the mid 90's cars have a arrow on the fuel gauge that indicates which side of the car it's gas cap is on
kJnAB TIL the Frisbee was invented by Walter Morrison in 1948, inspired by the way popcorn lids would fly in the air.
ep4oJ TIL we're banking cells of endangered animals so we can reintroduce them in case they go extinct when humanity learns to treat the planet better