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TIL Parmesan cheese is technically only parmesan if it comes from one of 5 specific parts of Italy.

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awpr9 TIL that fake oil paintings can be detected because of nuclear bombs detonated in 1945 because of the fact that isotopes such as strontium-90 and cesium-137 that can be found in oil did not exist in nature previously. If a picture contains these isotopes, it is certainly painted after year 1945
Me8wA TIL there is a Filipino carpenter who has been voluntarily crucified every year since 1985 on Good Friday. He drives four-inch nails into both hands and feet and is then lifted on a wooden cross for around five minutes.
YpEpA TIL one prominent noble Japanese clan, the Hata Family (秦氏) claims direct descent from the Qin Dynasty in China (221-206 B.C.)
wLENW TIL a bumblebee generates a positive charge by flapping its wings and transfers some to a flower it lands, making other bumblebees easier to sense that pollen of the flower has recently been removed.
OGgZ6 TIL In 2018, the president of Turkmenistan ordered the impounding of all dark-colored vehicles in the capital, and the car owners were told they must pay to have them repainted silver or white, because the-then president loved the color white & considered it to be lucky.