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TIL Stilton cheese cannot be legally produced in the village of Stilton.

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Lk7yd TIL NASA operates an online interactive 3D map of the solar system with planets and other celestial objects.
J1pL4 TIL Jim Carrey won back-to-back acting Golden Globe awards (The Truman Show & Man on the Moon) without receiving an Oscar nomination for either of them and he still has never been nominated for an Oscar.
0wEAy TIL astronaut helmets contain a small foam block they can use to scratch their nose while on space walks
5mjQ TIL that the game Monopoly was created with the goal of showing that rents enriched property owners and impoverished tenants
bPxQ TIL that a man named Peter Niers killed 544 people and was subsequently executed over a 3 day period which included having strips of flesh pulled from his skin and hot oil poured into the wounds.