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TIL that Italy sells more Italian olive oil than it can produce

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4kOpN TIL Peseshet, who lived under The Fourth Dynasty of Egypt, is the earliest known female physician in history
YWvZ TIL it’s illegal to own hamsters as pets in Hawaii
b9Gl9 TIL about the time Karen tried to speak to the manager of a submarine
neDZ7 TIL that after WWII, a small electronics shop was built in a bomb-damaged department store in Tokyo. The company, Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation, had only $530 and 8 employees. The company invented Japan's first tape recorder and, in 1958, changed its name to Sony.
GYVp1 TIL during WWII there was a Finnish soldier who overdosed on amphetamines to escape from Soviets. In the following week, he proceeded to ski 400 km (250 miles), dropped down to 94lb, survived a landmine, and ate a bird raw.