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TIl there is a bank in northen Italy that still accepts parmesan cheese as collatarel for loans, they have a inventory with over 17,000 tons of parmesan, valued over $200 million. Their vaults has been robbed 3 times. The name is Bank Credito Emiliano.

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y8dv TIL that there’s a guy that’s a writer, programmer, war correspondent, photographer, boxer, flying trapeze, ultramarathon runner and broadcaster with fellowships of National Geographic… and he invented the word “podcast”.
worj7 TIL that George Stanley, the designer of the Canadian flag, received death threats from opponents of his design.
Maw0 TIL: Neerja Bhanot, a 22-year-old Indian air hostess who helped hide 41 American passports aboard a hijacked plane. She died shielding three children from gunfire and was posthumously awarded bravery medals from India, Pakistan, and the United States.
m1LjO TIL Beethoven kept his hearing loss a secret. He once wrote(but never send) a letter to his brother confessing it and explained that people mistakenly thought he was antisocial: he longed for human contact but became a recluse out of shame for his condition and all this made him contemplate suicide
WkMO8 TIL that if you hold in too many farts, the gas can be reabsorbed and then exhaled in your breath.