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TIL in the 1930’s, Mussolini, outlawed pasta. Instead of producing strong Italian soldiers, the pasta weighed the youth down and made them lazy. The real reason was that Mussolini wanted to sell more rice, a staple crop in his home region in Northern Italy, which caused a split with the South.

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