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TIL Of a bank in Italy which offers loans in exchange for wheels of cheese. Currently they house 430,000 wheels, with a value up to 190 million euros.

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Y7JLG TIL there are aircraft carriers powered by nuclear reactors.
p8ZnA TIL of an all-female Anti-Poaching Unit in South Africa called Black Mambas. They reduced the number of incidents of snaring and poaching by as much as 76 percent
X0paR TIL that from 1959-67, the US had a quasi-secret military base in Greenland built in tunnels dug under the snow. Camp Century was a scientific research station on arctic bases, but was really a cover for a second strike nuclear launch site.
nvxo TIL the US and Australia are geographically almost the same size
OXya TIL that the Nazi salute looked almost identical to what was, at the time, the salute to the American flag. The USA changed the salute in 1942 after the Nazis adopted it.