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TIL Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi is the most translated fiction, non-religious book of all time

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4X8KX TIL that approximately 70 people spent four years in Madagascar collecting and handling over 1 million golden orb weaver spiders to use their silk in the production of an 11-by-4-foot (3.4-by-1.2m) “golden” embroidered cloth, the largest ever of it’s kind.
WkOPL TIL: Ecclesiastical Latin (i.e. "Church Latin") originated in Africa, not Rome
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yVV1V TIL that Pakistan is the largest producer of bagpipes
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