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TIL that the Iran women’s national soccer team fielded up to 8 men in 2015.

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eLwk TIL in Italy, wheels of parmesan cheese can be used as collateral for loans. Banks charge 3-5% interest (depending on the quality) and a fee for maturing in temperature- and humidity-controlled vaults; large vaults can hold as many as 430,000 wheels worth €190M
7WbX TIL the air in a cylinder that contained the Eiffel Tower would weigh more than the Eiffel Tower itself.
rkG1 TIL that Iron Sky (the film about Moon Nazis) made over half of its box office gross in Germany
Z87xa TIL that during the making of “Pulp Fiction,” Vincent Vega’s 1964 Chevelle Malibu, which actually belonged to Tarantino, was stolen during production. In 2013, he was reunited with it when a sheriff spotted two men stripping it in the Oakland area, ran the VIN, and found it belonged to the director.
WkNxA TIL Animals confined to small places in zoos often start exhibiting unnatural repetitive motions or Trichotillomania due to neurosis caused by confinement labeled az zoochosis the zoo equivalent of psychosis