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TIL there is a boardgame called “The Campaign for North Africa,” which takes an estimated 60,000 minutes to complete. An example of the extreme details? Italian troops require extra water in order to boil pasta.

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oR1jE TIL that the single largest infiltration of the United States government in history was committed by the Church of Scientology in order to purge unfavorable records about Scientology and its founder L. Ron Hubbard.
rNAPe TIL that in the 1700s eccentric farmer James Hirst tried to ride a bull like a horse and train an otter to fish but got banned from a town when his wicker carriage crashed into a shop window.
4b1a TIL the Guinness World Record for longest note ever recorded on a saxophone, at 45 minutes and 47 seconds, is held by…Kenny G.
oVvA TIL Mitsubishi is buying and freezing one of the worlds most endangered fish, in the hope to sell the commodity when it becomes exstinct.
grEWL TIL that English is not the official language of the United States since it doesn’t have one, but it’s the most widely used. Some of the most widely spoken languages other than English are Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, and Arabic.