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TIL that Su Filindeu (The Threads of God) is the rarest , most difficult to make pasta in the world , and for 300 years ,only 3 women of a single Sardinian family knows how to make it.

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gayW TIL that NASA named “2012” the most scientifically inaccurate movie ever.
R7Lja TIL about Mandate of Heaven, theory in China, according to which the ruler must have the support of Heaven to rule. Moral rulers who care for their people gain the mandate. If a despot sits on the throne, the Heavens can withdraw it, which they signal through e.g. eclipses, floods, wars, plagues etc
yRae TIL in 1954 Soviet prisoners overthrew their guards and, for 40 days, established a gulag republic with a democratically elected provisional government, marriages between male and female prisoners, indigenous religious ceremonies and a general flowering of art and culture.
Lkjgp TIL what the C and CE buttons on the calculator stand for and do
1agwD TIL that some scientists theorize that the origin of life is just the inevitable outcome of thermodynamics as a middle-step to increase overall entropy in the universe.