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TIL there is a bank in Italy that accepts wheels of cheese as loan collateral

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jN4wR TIL in 2015 "Hello Barbie" was released. She used speech recognition and connected to wifi. When you pressed her belt buckle, Barbie saved what you said to the cloud so she could learn your likes and dislikes and incorporate them into future conversations. Some parents found it "too creepy".
WkVm9 TIL during the entire filming of Mary Poppins, NOBODY, not even Julie Andrews, let Dick Van Dyke know he had the “most atrocious cockney accent in the history of cinema.”
9w6kr TIL that the largest territorial claim in antarctica is made by Australia, totalling an area of 5,896,500 km2
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7Rnx TIL that before trees were common, the earth was covered in giant mushrooms