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TIL Italy spent $50,000,000 bailing out the Parmesan cheese industry.

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D1vYv TIL pygmy seahorses are tiny fish that are nearly indistinguishable from their habitats due to their size and extreme camouflage. They are so well camouflaged that Bargibant’s pygmy seahorse was only discovered after a host gorgonian was collected and observed by marine biologist George Bargibant.
8a6Z4 TIL The reason Dolphins don't go into an unconscious sleep is because they would stop going up for air and suffocate.
N7DA1 TIL about the ancient Italian city of Matera, where up until the 1950’s, some people were living in caves as old as 9,000 years
KYyEa TIL that "rock 'n' roll" had been used since the early 1920s as a blues song lyric meaning sexual intercourse. The term was popularized by a record salesman and DJ to introduce racially charged "rythm & blues" to a white audience.
R7bAw TIL that filmmaker James Cameron reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the ocean, in the Deepsea Challenger submersible on March 26, 2012. He is the first person to do this in a solo descent, and is only the third person to do so ever.