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TIL that since 1953, a Italian regional bank called Credito Emiliano has accepted giant wheels of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese as collateral for small-business loans. Besides holding the cheese as insurance, the bank stores and ages the wheels in climate-controlled vaults for the duration of the loan.

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v1wJL TIL Of Skara Brae, a Neolithic settlement in Scotlands largest island. In 1850, a Farmer Found a Secret Village Older Than The Great Pyramids of Egypt.
kO9x1 TIL Isaac Hayes, one of the only famous black Scientologists, approached Scientology leader David Miscavige and asked why the religion wasn’t doing more to court black Americans. So Miscavige reached out to the Nation of Islam, and by 2010, they began promoting the benefits of Scientology.
mx7Xo TIL "We have the technology to totally fill Twitter, email, and the web up with reasonable-sounding context-appropriate prose, which would drown out all other speech and be impossible to filter." Jeremy Howard
EZMo TIL that Michaelangelo began dissecting cadavers at age 17 and Johns Hopkins researchers now believe he painted God with an anatomically correct brain stem on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
pV4O Til that Pakistan puts nuclear warheads in unmarked vans and drives them around the country in a never ending road trim to “keep them safe.”