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TIL of a bank in Italy that holds their wealth in cheese rather than currency

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69Q0l TIL; Arguments before the Supreme Court are limited to 30 minutes for each side, a majority of the time.
e0QZL TIL that sea turtles basically cry salt (without the emotion). The sea turtles' tear gland evolved into a "salt gland" so that it could expel salt from its body, which is very important for reptilian sea creatures. The substance released is salty brine.
e0y8E TIL that before trees were common, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms
g4mD TIL that India was going to ban showing of “The Life of Pi” because the CGI starved tiger was so real the Indian authorities thought a real tiger had been starved
Qmkp TIL famed sci-fi author Isaac Asimov refused the invitation to renowned A.I. pioneer Marvin Minsky’s lab at MIT in the 1960s because he was “Writing about really intelligent robots of the future and was sure that if he came and saw the clumsy ones that we were making it would spoil his imagination.”