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TIL Italy was never a province of the Roman Empire, it instead had the special administrative status of "Domina provinciarum" meaning "ruler of the provinces"

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Kp6a TIL: Special K is banned in Denmark for being fortified with “toxic” doses of nutrients
JYjEk TIL String cheese is made by heating mozzarella to 60 °C which causes the milk proteins to line up. They can then be peeled off in strings.
XvWX TIL Walmart costs taxpayers 6.2 billion per year.
jJ0M TIL the actor Thomas Kretschmann, who appeared in King Kong and The Pianist, made a month-long trek from East to West Germany to escape communism when he was 19. He crossed 4 borders with only a passport and the equivalent of $100 and lost part of his finger to frostbite.
gMyOD TIL James Earl Ray was not arrested until two months after MLK’s assassination and had traveled to Canada, Portugal and England.