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TIL that Pecorino Cheese is sheep cheese—Pecorino in Italian means "ovine" or "of sheep"

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7L7O TIL Thomas Jefferson believed that The Constitution should expire every 19 years.
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gMb7L TIL Americans and Europeans have different paper sizes (pls search european paper sizes as 2 links is impossible
Koa6 TIL that as NASA’s Jupiter-bound Juno spacecraft swung past Earth on Oct. 9, 2013, amateur radio operators around the world sent a Morse Code “HI” to the spacecraft, and Juno heard them!
xVoY1 TIL that racial segregation in the American South didn't begin right after the Civil War; it was imposed in the 1890s when rich whites in the South feared the Populist movement bringing poor whites and blacks together. Segregation literally stopped the two sides from legally gathering together.